https://doi.org/10.52131/jee.2022.0301.0024 38 iRASD Journal of Energy & Environment Volume 3, Number 1, 2022, Pages 38 - 49 Journal Homepage: https://journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/jee The Role of Sustainable Energy, Technology Adoption, and Green Finance on the Environmental Sustainability in China Waseem Yousaf 1 , Snober Fazal 2 1 Department of Business & Management Sciences, Minhaj University Lahore, Pakistan. Email: m.waseem511@gmail.com 2 PhD Scholar, Department of Economics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Email: snoberfazal44@yahoo.com ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: June 05, 2022 Revised: June 23, 2022 Accepted: June 28, 2022 Available Online: June 30, 2022 Environmental sustainability (ES) has gained global attention due to uncertain environmental and economic conditions, and this phenomenon needs researchers’ intention. Therefore, the current article examines the impact of sustainable energy, such as renewable energy (RE) output and RE consumption, technology adoption, green finance (GF), and economic growth (EG) on environmental sustainability in China. The article has gathered the data from World Development Indicators (WDI) and the central bank from 1990 to 2020. The study employed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) to check the connection among the constructs. The findings exposed that the RE output and RE consumption, technology adoption, GF, and EG have positive ES in China. These findings guide the regulators in developing regulations related to improving ES using sustainable energy, GF, and technology adoption. Keywords: Sustainable energy Renewable energy output Technology adoption Green finance Economic growth Environmental sustainability JEL Classification Codes: O4, O44, Q42, Q55 Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. © 2022 The Authors, Published by iRASD. This is an Open Access Article under the Creative Common Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Corresponding Author’s Email: m.waseem511@gmail.com Citation: Yousaf, W., & Fazal, S. (2022). The Role of Sustainable Energy, Technology Adoption, and Green Finance on the Environmental Sustainability in China. IRASD Journal of Energy & Environment, 3(1), 38–49. https://doi.org/10.52131/jee.2022.0301.0024 1. Introduction The world's temperature is fluctuating at a rapid pace. High energy use, carbon emissions, air pollution, and glacier melting are all contributing factors to this trend. As climate change becomes a serious worry, the world is expressing serious concern about the problem while keeping in mind its catastrophic consequences. Global or regional climate change, an increase in the planet's average temperature, and the resulting changes in the seas, land surfaces, and ice sheets are all referred to as "climate change." (S. Gao & Jiang, 2020; Sharif, Godil, et al., 2020). The world aims to reduce and maintain the global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. Governments, international organizations, and cities are now involved in global climate governance, as well as private entities including businesses, academic societies, and civil society groups (Lima et al., 2020; Mekhilef, 2018). To prevent environmental issues and ensure that the planet is safe for coming generations, governments are putting several programs in place to embrace sustainable energy production methods and educate their populations about green products (Ahmad et al., 2019; Sharif, Mishra, et al., 2020).