Toward a Green Energy System: How Does Carbon Capture,  Utilization,  and Storage Technology Innovation Promote Green Total Factor Productivity?^*

The article is sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China (grant no. 23VMG006); Grant-in-Aid for the Excellent Young Researcher of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT); Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (grant no. 22K13432) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (grant no. 22H03816) of the JSPS. The authors acknowledge the constructive comments of Fumiharu Mieno, Wai-Mun Chia, Phouphet Kyphilavong, Wing Thye Woo, and all the participants of the Asian Economic Panel Meeting held on 6–7 September 2023 at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Certainly, all remaining errors are our own.

Data Availability Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Disclosure statement: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.