Study on the Drivers of Inclusive Green Growth in China Based on the Digital Economy Represented by the Internet of Things (IoT)

Table 1

Definitions of IGG in literature.

Institution or authors	Definition
The United Nations Environmental Program [15]	“To Improve human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities”
The World Bank [16]	“In order to meet the sustainable development goal, the inclusive growth must be green, and green growth must be inclusive”
Wu and Zhou [17]	“To pursue economic growth, social equity, sharing results, resource conservation, and a good ecological environment”
The International Monetary Fund [18]	“It is a model that eliminates poverty and environmental damage while achieving economic growth to achieve sustainable development”
Bouma and Berkhout [19]; Kessler and Slingerland [20]	“To balance the relationship between growth and inclusiveness, while paying attention to the current and future growth of people’s welfare”
Berkhout et al. [14]	“It is an economic growth model that takes into account the welfare of the socially poor (inclusive) and future generations (green)”
Mandle et al. [21]	“To improve human well-being through the optimization of the ecosystem and the protection and restoration of natural assets such as land, water and biodiversity”
Kumar [22]	“The core elements comprise sustainable consumption and production, equitable outcomes, and investments for environmental sustainability”
He and Du [23]	“It is a new way to attain sustainable development, aims to achieve comprehensive and coordinated economic, social, and environmental development”