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The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples
While the COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts on economic and social development, it may have partially reduced human energy use, thereby helping achieve the goals of reducing carbon emissions and promoting carbon neutrality. During the pandemic, online education was widely used to replace tra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118875 |
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author | Yin, Zhaohui Jiang, Xiaomeng Lin, Songyue Liu, Jin |
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description | While the COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts on economic and social development, it may have partially reduced human energy use, thereby helping achieve the goals of reducing carbon emissions and promoting carbon neutrality. During the pandemic, online education was widely used to replace traditional education all over the world. There is a lack of empirical studies on whether and to what extent the change of education model can reduce carbon emissions. Taking Chinese universities as cases, this study, concentrating on two main elements – transportation and electricity consumption – constructs a model and calculates the impact of online education on carbon emissions. The results show that online education can significantly reduce energy consumption and lower carbon emissions. In the field of higher education alone, the carbon emissions reduction caused by online education in half a year is equivalent to the total carbon emissions reduction of college students caused by online education during the half-year is equivalent to the total carbon emissions in 1.296 h in China, 2.688 h in the United States, 5.544 h in India, 12 h in Japan and 3.864 h in European countries of OECD. Therefore, this study suggests that the impact of online education on carbon emissions should be further studied, online education should be promoted through legislation and other systemic measures, and the goals of carbon emissions and carbon neutrality should be explored further within the field of education. |
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spelling | pubmed-89133342022-03-11 The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples Yin, Zhaohui Jiang, Xiaomeng Lin, Songyue Liu, Jin Appl Energy Article While the COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts on economic and social development, it may have partially reduced human energy use, thereby helping achieve the goals of reducing carbon emissions and promoting carbon neutrality. During the pandemic, online education was widely used to replace traditional education all over the world. There is a lack of empirical studies on whether and to what extent the change of education model can reduce carbon emissions. Taking Chinese universities as cases, this study, concentrating on two main elements – transportation and electricity consumption – constructs a model and calculates the impact of online education on carbon emissions. The results show that online education can significantly reduce energy consumption and lower carbon emissions. In the field of higher education alone, the carbon emissions reduction caused by online education in half a year is equivalent to the total carbon emissions reduction of college students caused by online education during the half-year is equivalent to the total carbon emissions in 1.296 h in China, 2.688 h in the United States, 5.544 h in India, 12 h in Japan and 3.864 h in European countries of OECD. Therefore, this study suggests that the impact of online education on carbon emissions should be further studied, online education should be promoted through legislation and other systemic measures, and the goals of carbon emissions and carbon neutrality should be explored further within the field of education. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-05-15 2022-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8913334/ /pubmed/35291256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118875 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Yin, Zhaohui Jiang, Xiaomeng Lin, Songyue Liu, Jin The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples |
title | The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples |
title_full | The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples |
title_fullStr | The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples |
title_short | The impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – Taking Chinese universities as examples |
title_sort | impact of online education on carbon emissions in the context of the covid-19 pandemic – taking chinese universities as examples |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118875 |
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