Effect of AI-related patents, energy transition, environmental policy stringency, income, and energy consumption sub-types on the environmental sustainability: Evidence from China by KRLS approach

Kartal M. T., Kim E., Muxtarov Ş., Taşkın Yeşilova F. D., Kirikkaleli D., KILIÇ DEPREN S., ...daha çox

Journal of Environmental Management, vol.395, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Nəşrin Növü: Article / Article
  • Cild: 395
  • Nəşr tarixi: 2025
  • Doi nömrəsi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127924
  • jurnalın adı: Journal of Environmental Management
  • Jurnalın baxıldığı indekslər: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, BIOSIS, Compendex, EMBASE, Environment Index, Geobase, Greenfile, Index Islamicus, Public Affairs Index, Social Sciences Abstracts
  • Açar sözlər: AI-Related patents, China, Energy consumption, Energy transition, Environmental policy stringency, Environmental sustainability, Income
  • Açıq Arxiv Kolleksiyası: Məqalə
  • Adres: Bəli

Qısa məlumat

Due to the increasing negative effects on humanity, searching for potential solutions to combat environmental problems has been developing. Accordingly, the study examines the effect of a set of critical factors on environmental sustainability (ES) proxied by ecological footprint (EFP) and load capacity factor (LCF) in China. In this context, the study considers AI-related patents, energy transition, environmental policy stringency (EPS), income, and energy consumption (EC) sub-types and applies the Kernel Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) approach on data from 2000 to 2020 within the context of marginal effect analysis. The outcomes show that (i) AI-related patents and energy transition are completely ineffective to ensure ES; (ii) EPS are marginally effective only at 0.25th and 0.75th percentiles to support ES; (iii) economic growth as well as oil, gas, and coal EC are not good for ES across all percentiles; (iv) nuclear EC is only helpful at 0.25th percentiles, whereas renewable EC is completely unbeneficial; (v) KRLS approach presents successful prediction outcomes around 99.7 % (vi) some variables (i.e., nuclear and renewable EC as well as EPS); have marginal and varying effects across percentiles, whereas some others have not. Thus, the study empirically demonstrates the inefficiency of AI-related patents and energy transition on the ES, whereas EPS and nuclear EC can be helpful to develop ES in the Chinese case.