Retraction notice: Exploring the influencing factors of environmental deterioration: evidence from China employing ARDL–VECM method with structural breaks

• Date: 26 December 2024
• Pages: 398-398
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-12-2024-0240
• Published date: 26 December 2024
• Subject Matter: Public policy & environmental management,Environmental issues,Climate change

Retraction notice: Exploring the

inf‌luencing factors of environmental

deterioration: evidence from China

employing ARDL–VECM method

with structural breaks

The publisher of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management

wishes to retract the article by HongweiWang (2022), “Exploring the inf‌luencing factors of

environmental deterioration: evidence from China employing ARDL–VECM method with

structural breaks”, published in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and

Management as part of a special issue, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, https://doi.

org/10.1108/IJCCSM-10-2021-0114

It has come to our attention that there are concerns that the peer review process was

compromised; as a result, the standard of the article does not meet those expected by the

journal and the f‌indings cannot be relied upon. There is no evidence that the author was

involved. The publisher of the journal sincerely apologises to the readers.The retracted

article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-10-2021-0114

IJCCSM

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InternationalJournal of Climate

ChangeStrategies and

Management

Vol.17 No. 1, 2025

p. 398

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DOI 10.1108/IJCCSM-12-2024-0240