Government Environmental Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance: Evidence from China

Abstract

Government environmental information disclosure (GEID) is a key policy instrument in environmental governance. Local governments in China are improving the disclosure level of environmental information, but does the environmental information disclosed by local governments reflect the existing state of the local ecological environment? This paper analyzes the correlation between GEID and environmental performance and verifies whether or not the environmental information disclosed by local governments can reflect actual local ecological environment conditions. Based on data from Chinese cities, this paper adopts a multiple regression method, and the results show that the environmental information disclosed by governments can reflect the local environmental performance as a whole, and the higher the level of GEID, the better the local environmental performance; but the relationship between the two has significant regional differences. In eastern China, the higher the level of GEID, the better the local environmental performance. In central and western China, the correlation between GEID and environmental performance is not significant. In addition, it should be noted that the correlation between the level of GEID and the emission intensity of water pollutants is not significant in all regions. This study contributes to further clarifying the effectiveness of GEID policy and identifying a breakthrough for the optimization of environmental policies faced with the dilemma of serious environmental pollution and urgent economic development needs.

[Retracted] Government Environmental Governance and Enterprise Coordinated Green Development under the Goal of “Double Carbon”

“…The green development of enterprises belongs to the category of green development, but the main body is enterprises. Therefore, it has the general characteristics of green development and has the characteristics of maintaining the unique green development of enterprises [ 4 ].…”

“…erefore, it has the general characteristics of green development and has the characteristics of maintaining the unique green development of enterprises [4].…”

Does Public Participation Reduce Regional Carbon Emissions? A Quasi-Natural Experiment from Environmental Information Disclosure in China

“…The PITI report was released by IPE, a well-known environmental organization, as the participation of environmental organizations can effectively reduce pollutant emissions [36]. After considering the addition of 7 cities in 2013, this conclusion still holds [16,37]. The most feasible approaches for public participation involve curbing pollutant emissions and improving environmental technology efficiency [38].…”

The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Environmental Governance Satisfaction

“…In the process of rural environmental governance, government environmental information disclosure plays an important role. Some scholars have used empirical evidence to prove that the disclosure of government environmental information reflects local environmental performance and improves the effectiveness of government environmental governance decisions [14,15]. When specific to a particular environmental field, some scholars found that information disclosure effectively reduces the concealment and underreporting of air pollution by innovatively examining the impact of environmental information disclosure on government air pollution control [16,17].…”