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186460
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Over the last decade, residential energy consumption has become a major contributor to global energy use and carbon emissions, and its contributions, especially in developing regions, are accelerating more rapidly than those of the industrial sector. The energy efficiency of the building stock has shown great potential for reducing household energy consumption through advanced measures on the envelopes of buildings, such as the use of advanced construction materials and improvements in building structures. Thus, policies have been implemented to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions from buildings. This paper analyses survey data from Guangzhou, a megacity with a subtropical climate in South China, to estimate the effects of energy efficiency on the energy consumption of residential buildings. We apply an econometric approach to examine the effects of energy efficiency, and we employ instrumental variables to address problems of endogeneity. The results show that greener buildings, in terms of advanced building materials and structures oriented towards high energy efficiency, reduce the carbon footprints of households. Additionally, households with low income levels and those with environmentally friendly energy consumption behaviour are likely to benefit from living in energy efficient buildings more than other households. Finally, suggestions on ways to improve energy policy and methods to reduce household energy consumption and carbon (CO2) emissions are presented.
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191395
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This research delves into the impact of mixed-ownership reform on carbon dioxide emissions within State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), leveraging Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Difference-in-Difference (DID) estimation methodologies. The results gleaned from our study evince that the adoption of mixed-ownership reform in China's SOEs facilitates a notable reduction in carbon emissions. Our mechanism analysis elucidates that the substitution of clean energy plays a significant role in enabling mixed-ownership reform to foster corporate carbon emission reduction. Intriguingly, our evidence reveals that the influence of mixed-ownership reform is more pronounced in curtailing carbon emissions of large-scale enterprises. Conversely, this reform appears less effective in constraining the augmentation of carbon emissions in small and medium-sized enterprises. The robustness of our findings is further buttressed by the application of alternative matching methods and results derived from the placebo test.
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138706
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Since 2005, when Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway was published, there has been much discussion about its conclusions. Likewise, in the course of time there have appeared books like John Lundstrom’s Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, Dallas Isom’s Midway Inquest, Elliot Carlson’s Rochefort’s War, and Craig Symonds’s The Battle of Midway, and several articles of note. One of the most interesting interpretations of the battle is Midway Inquest, which came out in 2006. While we cannot accept all of Isom’s arguments, he does make a key point—that Admiral Nagumo Chūichi and his 1st Air Fleet staff have been scapegoated, given too much of the blame for the Midway debacle. This is particularly true when it comes to the supposedly faulty reconnaissance arrangements utilized during the battle.
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