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The need to promote green and sustainable development has become the consensus all over the world. In the context of climate change, various energy and environmental policies are being taken in several countries, such as carbon trading schemes in European Union, North America, South Korea, New Zealand and China. Effectively evaluating the impacts of these energy and environmental policies on sustainable development is important not only in the academic world but also for the policymakers. This Special Issue calls for a more critical discussion about how energy and environmental policies can contribute to green and sustainable development. The aim is to create a collection of rigorous research articles that explore, examine, and make proposals of which conditions and mechanisms can push the energy and environmental policies to play in favor of green and sustainable development. We invite articles that address the important issues of energy and environmental policies and economics in all industries, regions and countries. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to:

Conceptualizing proper energy and environmental policies;
Impacts of energy and environmental policies on sustainable development;
Scenarios and pathways for sustainable development across industrial sectors, regions and countries;
Methods and tools for energy and environmental policy evaluation (e.g., reduced form; structural form; machine learning).

Prof. Dr. Ruipeng Tan
Prof. Dr. Xinju He
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energy economics
environmental economics
energy policy
environmental policy
sustainable development

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Research on the Classification of New Energy Industry Policy Texts Based on BERT Model

by Qian Li, Zezhong Xiao and Yanyun Zhao

Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11186; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411186 - 18 Jul 2023

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The existing means for classifying new energy industry policies are mainly based on the theory of policy instruments and manual encoding, which are highly subjective, less reproducible, and inefficient, especially when dealing with large-scale policy texts. Based on the theory of policy instrument, the research tried to apply the automatic classification model based on BERT to new energy industry policies to improve its classification efficiency and accuracy. A new energy industry policy classification model was established to train on policy texts and to compare the policy classification effects with the other two commonly used text classification models. The model comparison results show that the BERT model achieves higher precision, recall, and F1 score, indicating a better classification effect. Furthermore, adding topic sentences to training texts can effectively improve the classification effect of the BERT model. The policy classification results show that environmental policies are the most prevalent in new energy industry policies, while demand-side policy instruments are underutilized. Among the 11 types of subdivided policies, the application of goal planning policies is overflowing. Full article

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Does Local Government’s Competitive Behavior to Attract Foreign Investment Affect Ecological Welfare Performance? Evidence from China

by Dandan Wu and Wei Dong

Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12903; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912903 - 10 Oct 2022

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Ecological welfare performance (EWP) is an essential indicator of sustainable socioeconomic development. In China, the government-led economic development paradigm mandates that the competitive behavior of local governments is a major influencing factor on EWP. This research explores how the government’s competitive behavior to attract foreign investment affects ecological welfare performance. Based on the super-efficiency slacks-based measure (SBM) model to assess the level of EWP in China, this paper utilizes a two-way fixed-effects model to determine the impact of local governments’ foreign investment competition on EWP. The results indicate the following. (1) Although introducing foreign investment may promote regional EWP, local governments’ vicious competition in introducing foreign investment is detrimental to its improvement. (2) The effect of local governments’ foreign investment competition on EWP exhibits various heterogeneous characteristics that depend on the differences in the regional distribution and intensity of competition for fiscal revenue and expenditures. (3) Resource factor mobility has a significant moderating effect on the impact of local governments’ competition for foreign investment on EWP. Capital mobility weakens the inhibitory effect of governments’ competition for foreign investment on the enhancement of EWP, while technological mobility and labor mobility have the opposite moderating effect. These findings may clarify the impact of governments’ competition for foreign investment on EWP and provide policy guidelines and implications for other countries pursuing the expansion of foreign direct investment (FDI). Full article

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