Research from Guangzhou University Has Provided New Study Findings on Agricultural Insurance (The Effect of Agriculture Insurance on Agricultural Carbon Emissions in China: The Mediation Role of Low-Carbon Technology Innovation): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2023 MAR 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in agricultural insurance. According to news reporting out of Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Global greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, with carbon dioxide being the most prominent.”

Financial supporters for this research include The Guangzhou Basic Research Program Jointly Funded By Municipal Schools.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Guangzhou University: “It is urgent to address and resolve the carbon emissions problem. This study investigates the mediating mechanism of agricultural insurance and low-carbon technology innovation on agricultural carbon emissions. We employed a two-way fixed effect panel model with data from 30 provinces in China from 2001-2019 to validate our hypotheses. The results demonstrate that (1) agricultural insurance can play an effective role in reducing agricultural carbon emissions, and (2) an indirect effect of agricultural insurance development on agricultural carbon emissions through low-carbon technology innovation exists. These results indicate that agricultural insurance could suppress agricultural carbon emissions indirectly through low-carbon technology innovation, thus preventing the acceleration of the greenhouse effect.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This study further analyzed regional differences and discovered that the suppression effect of agricultural insurance on agricultural carbon emissions is more significant in the eastern regions and non-main grain-producing areas of China. Therefore, the analysis implies that promoting the development of agricultural insurance to encourage low-carbon technology innovation is crucial to accelerate the process of “carbon peak and neutrality”, especially for the eastern regions and non-main grain-producing areas of China.”

For more information on this research see: The Effect of Agriculture Insurance on Agricultural Carbon Emissions in China: The Mediation Role of Low-Carbon Technology Innovation. Sustainability, 2023,15(5). (Sustainability - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability). The publisher for Sustainability is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054431.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Shi-jie Jiang, School of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center No. 230, Outer Ring West Road, Guangzhou 510006, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Lilin Wang, Feiyun Xiang.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Feiyun Xiang (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5214-2762).

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