Blockchain market and green finance: The enablers of carbon neutrality in China

【Author】 Qin, Meng; Zhang, Xiaojing; Li, Yameng; Badarcea, Roxana Maria

【Source】ENERGY ECONOMICS

【影响因子】9.252

【Abstract】This investigation explores whether the blockchain market and green finance are enablers of carbon neutrality in China. We employ the time-varying parameter-stochastic volatility-vector auto-regression model to acquire the dynamic interactions among blockchain market (BCM), green finance (GF) and carbon neutrality process (CNP). The empirical results underline that there are long-term positive and negative effects of BCM on CNP. The positive effect indicates that the blockchain market development brings a lasting stimulus to carbon neutrality in China, but the adverse influence can not prove this idea. Moreover, green finance development can persistently promote carbon neutrality, which is more continuous and stable but less rapid and influential than blockchain market. Beyond these direct effects, GF could positively and chronically influence BCM, which is greater and more stable than BCM on GF, and both indirectly impact CNP. In the context of the severe challenges climate change poses, these conclusions provide valuable implications for China to achieve its carbon neutrality target by vigorously developing the blockchain market and green finance.

【Keywords】Blockchain market; Green finance; Carbon neutrality; China; Time-varying

【发表时间】2023 FEB

【收录时间】2023-05-29

【文献类型】观点阐述

【主题类别】

区块链应用-实体经济-环保领域