Politická ekonomie 2024, Volume 72(2), Special Issue: 181-202 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1414

China's Political Risk and Transition to Cleaner Energy: Evaluating the Role of Political Economy for COP27

Xiao Gu ORCID..., Xiaohan Gu ORCID..., Weizheng Wang ORCID..., Difei Hu ORCID...
Xiao Gu: School of Marxism, Hangzhou Polytechnic, Hangzhou, China
Xiaohan Gu: Faculty of Law, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Weizheng Wang: Institute of Agricultural Information, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Difei Hu (corresponding author): Public Administration School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

In the pursuit of sustainable development, economies such as China are placing a paramount emphasis on significantly augmenting the utilization of renewable energy sources. This marks a departure from conventional research approaches that solely focused on macroeconomic determinants while investigating patterns of renewable energy consumption. Thus, this research pursues to witness the relationship between the political risk index (PRI), renewable electricity output (RELOP), public-private partnership investment in energy (PPINENR), and renewable energy consumption (RECNS) in China from 1984 to 2022. For data estimations, this study utilizes time series methods, which include DF-GLS and Johansen cointegration for unit root and long-run equilibrium with FMOLS, DOLS and CCR as primary methods. The research also employs the least squares method with break years and robust least squares as robustness check methods while for causal relationships, we deploy the Granger causality approach. The outcomes assert that variables are found stationary at differences and long-run equilibrium is confirmed among variables. The empirical estimations predict that GDP and PPINENR reduce the RECNS in China in both short and long term. Furthermore, PRI and RELOP enhance renewable energy consumption in the short as well as long run. Therefore, policymakers should mostly focus on the encouraging role of PPINENR towards renewable electricity to enhance RECNS in developing economies, particularly in China. To achieve the targets of COP27, China should increase its focus on the efficient utilization of public-private partnership investments and also manage the political risks in the economy to promote renewable energy consumption and achieve a sustainable environment. Moreover, the causality analysis unearths that PRI could be utilized along with other variables to enhance RECNS in China. The robustness check asserts similar and robust outcomes.

Keywords: Political risk index, renewable electricity output, public-private partnership investment in energy, renewable energy consumption, GDP, China
JEL classification: O13, P28, Q42, Q43

Vloženo: 13. červen 2023; Revidováno: 3. srpen 2023; Přijato: 26. září 2023; Zveřejněno online: 20. listopad 2023; Zveřejněno: 1. květen 2024  Zobrazit citaci

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Gu, X., Gu, X., Wang, W., & Hu, D. (2024). China's Political Risk and Transition to Cleaner Energy: Evaluating the Role of Political Economy for COP27. Politická ekonomie, 72(Spec.issue), 181-202. doi: 10.18267/j.polek.1414
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