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How Industrialization Stage Moderates the Impact of China’s Low-Carbon Pilot Policy?

Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10577; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su122410577
by Qi Sun 1,2,*, Qiaosheng Wu 1,2,*, Jinhua Cheng 1,2, Pengcheng Tang 1,2, Siyao Li 1,2 and Yantuo Mei 1,2
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10577; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su122410577
Submission received: 21 November 2020 / Revised: 12 December 2020 / Accepted: 16 December 2020 / Published: 17 December 2020

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript provides a new proposal for an integrating an evaluation system to estimate the low-carbon development using the index LCDI. The authors include a set of covering the city’s primary carbon source industries and carbon sink fields, including the aspects of macro, energy, industry, environment, land, and life, and 24 quantitative indicators.

The manuscript develops a methodology that provides relevant advances to the classic indexes previously used. The data selection process is adequate and the estimation tools are consistent with the objectives of the study.

It would be desirable to specify in greater detail the selection criteria of the 24 quantitative indicators chosen, and if in the selection process some type of peer evaluation process has been used that allows to show that no other relevant and significant indicator has been left out of the index.

Express complementary information should be included on the guarantees and reliability of the sources from which the analyzed data have been obtained.

Throughout the text, the broad advantages of the new “low-carbon development evaluation index system” (uses the improved TOPSIS model) are highlighted over other indices traditionally used to measure the LCDI.

It would be desirable to highlight some limitation of this index and the expectations that its use opens up for possible future transnational research. Likewise, if there are obstacles to accessing the primary data that allow the index to be calculated and what degree of reliability the sources from which they are obtained are. In this sense, it would be of interest to show some of the main weaknesses and, likewise, to highlight the strengths of the primary sources from which the different estimates and calculations have been made.

A complementary effort is recommended to incorporate a contemporary literature review of recent years, with more current references that show recent advances on the topic and LCDI measurement methodologies.

Please, show some of the implications for future research that allow the transfer of the model to other contexts and the use of the methodology to formulate more ambitious research approaches of greater scope and territorial extension (including more cities, or countries) and longitudinal studies in the weather.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The study is highly timely and shows some important results. But my only concern is the study and the subsequent results are discussed specifically in context to Chinese cities. The wider audience may not gain or find any interest to to the study. The present study looks very location specific with no suggestions on how the methodology (low-carbon development evaluation index system) can be  applicable to other places as well.  The findings needs to be generalized and discussed so that the methodology can be replicated (with modifications) in case of other cities in the world. 

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