 More green digital finance with less energy poverty? The key role of climate riskChi-Chuan Lee, Mingyue Li, Xinghao Li and Hepeng Song Energy Economics, 2025, vol. 141, issue C Abstract: The emerging field of green digital finance (GDF) holds promise for alleviating energy poverty (EP); however, its potential remains underexplored. Constructing a multidimensional index of GDF, this study investigates whether and how GDF development contributes to EP mitigation. Employing provincial-level panel data from China, our findings indicate that GDF development significantly reduces EP, and enhancing energy efficiency and deepening digitalization are potential mechanisms in this process. Moreover, climate risk demonstrates moderating/threshold effects, with an unfavorable role in addressing EP. Specifically, GDF exhibits a propensity to decrease EP at lower levels of climate risk, with the opposite effect observed at higher levels of risk. These findings offer essential guidance for policymakers to alleviate EP and promote sustainable development. Keywords: Green digital finance; Energy poverty; Climate risk; Dynamic panel threshold model; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:141:y:2025:i:c:s0140988324008533 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2024.108144 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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