Green Household Technology and Its Impacts on Environmental Sustainability in China

Qin Meng, Jing-Wen Zhang, Yunxu Wang, Hsu-Ling Chang () and Chi-Wei Su
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Qin Meng: School of Businesses, Wuchang University of Technology, Wuhan 430223, China
Jing-Wen Zhang: School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa 999078, China
Yunxu Wang: International Business School, Qingdao Huanghai University, Qingdao 266555, China
Hsu-Ling Chang: Department of Accounting, Ling Tung University, Taichung 408284, Taiwan
Chi-Wei Su: School of Economics, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266109, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 17, 1-13

Abstract: China has made a commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, and promoting a green lifestyle is an essential means to this end. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the asymmetric impact of green household technology on environmental sustainability in China. To that end, we have employed linear and non-linear auto-regressive distributed lag models to identify this complicated effect. The empirical results suggest that green household technology’s positive change exerts significant and negative effect on carbon emission in the short and long terms. And the impacts of green household technology’s negative change on carbon emission are significantly negative but smaller than its positive change in the long run, while insignificant in the short term. The estimates endorse the asymmetric impact of green household technology on carbon emissions both in the short and long term. This finding suggests that the improvement of green household technology can reduce carbon emissions, while a decline in it causes carbon emissions to rise, and technological retrogression plays a less influential role than its development. This research is a groundbreaking point in discussing the way towards environmental sustainability from a green household technology perspective, which considers the asymmetric effect and provides meaningful insights for China to achieve sustainable development.

Keywords: green household technology; environmental sustainability; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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