Environmental regulation and carbon emission: The mediation effect of technical efficiency

Yu, Pei; Zhu, Yi; Liu, Suxia; Wang, Xuechen; Cao, Jiajun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.07.074

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“…China's current legal and supervision systems on environmental protection have being more and more adequate with various regulations and measures promulgated. This result is in accord with the findings of Pei et al (2019), Zhang et al (2017). Furthermore, this paper uses the interactive term (EPU*ER) to capture the effect of uncertainty on the functional mechanisms of environmental regulation.…”

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“…Wang (2018) suggest that there is an inverted U-shaped curve relationship between environmental regulation and carbon emissions. Besides, some researchers confirmed that environmental regulations have indirect effects on carbon emission through transmission paths, such as industrial structure (Yang et al 2020), energy structure (Wu et al 2020), technological innovation (Cheng et al 2017, Pei et al 2019 and FDI (Wang et al 2018). The influence mechanism, however, is paradoxical.…”

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confidence: 99%

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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

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More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has created massive economic policy uncertainty (EPU). EPU and its economic fallout have been a hot topic of study, however, the impact of EPU on CO2 emissions has been seldom addressed to date. This paper investigates the direct impact of the EPU on CO2 emissions and indirect effect via the environmental regulation at the national and regional levels using the panel data model and provincial panel data from 2003 to 2017 in China. The empirical results show that the central region is the most special one, which all explanatory variables except energy consumption are all non-significant even at the 10% level. For other samples, there is a significant positive correlation between EPU and CO2 emissions, whether in the national or regional level. Additionally, environmental regulation alone can achieve the purpose of curtailing carbon emissions. However, when the EPU is taken into consideration, environmental regulation exerts a significantly positive effect on CO2 emissions, leading to unintended increase in emissions. Moreover, the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis was confirmed in the national and eastern samples, while CO2 emissions increase monotonically as economic level grows for western datasets. Based on the overall findings, some policy implications were put forward.

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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

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Zhang

2021

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“…Song et al (2020a) also found that environmental regulation can directly alleviate environmental pollution in China. Similarly, Pei et al (2019) also found that environmental regulations could potentially reduce carbon emissions. Danish, et al (2020) also found that environmental regulations are helpful in reducing pollution in BRICS countries.…”

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Do environmental taxes and environmental stringency policies reduce CO2 emissions? Evidence from 7 emerging economies

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Mulat-Weldemeskel

2021

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“…Zhao et al [26] took carbon-intensive industries as the survey object and found that environmental supervision can reduce environmental pollution by increasing production costs or applying environmental technologies. Governments can increase the production costs and pollution control costs of enterprises through market-incentive environmental regulation, such as levying environmental taxes and emission trading systems to reduce pollution emissions [19,27,28]. Moreover, some scholars have studied the impact of environmental regulation on environmental pollution through industrial structure [29], foreign direct investment [7] and technological innovation [27,30,31].…”

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How Promotion Incentives and Environmental Regulations Affect China’s Environmental Pollution?

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As for the academics and policymakers, more attention has been given to the issue on how to reduce environmental pollution through the cooperation of environmental regulation and local officials’ promotion incentives. With the use of a city-level panel data of 266 Chinese cities from 2005 to 2016, this study preliminary explores the impacts of environmental regulations, local officials’ promotion incentives, and their interaction terms on urban environmental pollution at national and regional levels by using the spatial Durbin model. The results indicate that the impacts of environmental regulations and local officials’ promotion incentives on urban environmental pollution have achieved the desired goal with the other’s cooperation, and their interaction term’s coefficients on urban environmental pollution are significantly negative. Moreover, spatial heterogeneity is established, and the uneven development of urban environmental pollution among different regions deserves more attention. In order to effectively reduce the level of urban environmental pollution in China, the government should focus on such solutions as enhancing the implementation and supervision efficiency of environmental regulation, optimizing the performance appraisal system of local officials, improving the synergistic effects of environmental regulations and local officials’ promotion incentives, and establishing a multi-scale spatial cooperation mechanism based on both geographical and economic correlations.

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Environmental regulation and carbon emission: The mediation effect of technical efficiency

Cited by 213 publications

References 53 publications

How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

Do environmental taxes and environmental stringency policies reduce CO2 emissions? Evidence from 7 emerging economies

How Promotion Incentives and Environmental Regulations Affect China’s Environmental Pollution?

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