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Can environmental information disclosure improve total-factor energy efficiency?

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  • Zhonghua Cheng
  • Qi Zhang
  • Xiang Li

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Environmental information disclosure (EID) actively causes enterprises to bear responsibility for both respecting the ecology and preserving a clean environment. It not only acts as an essential way for the public to be involved in controlling environmental pollution and supervising the performance of enterprises with respect to the environment, but is also a significant method to promote the modernization of ecological and environmental governance systems as well as capacity to govern. Panel data for 285 municipalities at the prefecture level in China from 2003 to 2019 are taken for the study. By adopting the difference-in-differences (DID) method and the mediation effect model, we discuss the influence and transmission mechanisms of environmental information disclosure on total-factor energy efficiency. The performance of total factor energy efficiency is greatly facilitated by environmental information disclosure, as indicated by the results. The conclusion remains valid after being tested. The mechanism analysis shows that its conduction path mainly comes from an innovation effect, while the structural effect, marketization effect and supervision effect play relatively weak intermediary roles. Heterogeneity analyses show that the promoting effect appears to be more pronounced in non-resource-based cities, large cities and those cities that are under strong environmental regulation.

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  • Zhonghua Cheng & Qi Zhang & Xiang Li, 2025. "Can environmental information disclosure improve total-factor energy efficiency?," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(1), pages 104-131, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:68:y:2025:i:1:p:104-131
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2238893
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