An empirical study of the factors influencing the willingness to implement green coal logistics in China

With increasing global warming and environmental degradation, green and low-carbon development modes have been increasingly widely accepted worldwide. This paper investigates the factors influencing green coal logistics by considering China's large and medium-sized coal enterprise groups as the questionnaire survey object, and it empirically explores the effects of these influence factors on the willingness to implement green coal logistics using a structural equation model. The results show that (1) internal motivation, support of external conditions and related subject influences have positive influences on the willingness to implement green coal logistics indirectly by promoting the general benefits, (2) internal barriers exert negative influences on the willingness to implement green coal logistics indirectly by driving the general benefits, (3) factors with positive influence, from strong to weak, are internal motivations, support of external conditions and related subject influences, and it turns out that the general benefits of green logistics has significantly positive effects on the willingness to implement green logistics, and (4) the policy system could directly affect the willingness to implement green logistics, which does not occur through the green logistics benefits. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.