More green digital finance with less energy poverty? The key role of climate risk
研究利用中国省级面板数据，构建绿色数字金融多维指数，发现其发展能显著降低能源贫困，能源效率提升和数字化深化是潜在机制，而气候风险起负面调节作用。
The emerging field of green digital finance (GDF) holds promise for alleviating energy poverty (EP); however, its potential remains underexplored. Constructing a multidimensional index of GDF, this study investigates whether and how GDF development contributes to EP mitigation. Employing provincial-level panel data from China, our findings indicate that GDF development significantly reduces EP, and enhancing energy efficiency and deepening digitalization are potential mechanisms in this process. Moreover, climate risk demonstrates moderating/threshold effects, with an unfavorable role in addressing EP. Specifically, GDF exhibits a propensity to decrease EP at lower levels of climate risk, with the opposite effect observed at higher levels of risk. These findings offer essential guidance for policymakers to alleviate EP and promote sustainable development .