Energy and environmental issues have already become two serious threats to China’s sustainable development. In this … relationships between energy consumption and carbon emissions, a newly developed dynamic threshold panel model that incorporates the … emissions in eastern and central China, while it did not function as expected to curb carbon emissions in the western region …

secondgeneration panel data methods, the empirical results support the EKC hypothesis for the high-, middle-, and lower-income panels … for the high-income panel, whereas the neutrality hypothesis holds for the lower- and middle-income panels. Based on the … energy consumption within any income panel. The net effect of economic growth, however, could help to stabilize future CO2 …