Heterogeneity in the relationship between carbon emission performance and urbanization: evidence from China

Zhang, Zhibo; Tian, Yuan; Shi, Xunpeng; Zhao, Longsheng

doi:10.1007/s11027-020-09924-3

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“…Meanwhile, Wang et al (2016) consider BRICS economies and confirm a panel causality between urbanization and CO2 emission, whereas Wang et al (2015) show that urbanization significantly contributes towards change in the value of per capita carbon emission. Besides, some other studies have confirmed that both urbanization and carbon emission is significantly linked with each other Shah et al 2020;Shi and Li 2018;Sun and Huang 2020;Zhao et al 2020;Zhou et al 2021).…”

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The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

Huang

Sadiq

Chien

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

129

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There is a shred of evidence of environmental degradation in the form of carbon emissions to behave differently when tested with different macroeconomic variables. This paper aims to examine the long-run and short-run association between natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission from the context of the USA during 1995-2015 with the help of a contemporary and innovative approach named quantile autoregressive distributed lagged model (QARDL). The stated approach is applied due to the fact that non-linearity is observed for the study variables. The findings indicated that the higher financial development (0.304), natural resource rent (0.102), and urbanization (0.489) have a positive impact on the environmental degradation in the region of USA during long-run estimation in the stated quantiles of the study. This would indicate that higher financial development, urbanization, and natural resources are putting more environmental pressure on the economy of the USA. Similarly, the findings under short-run estimation confirm that past and lagged values of carbon emission, financial development, natural resource rent, and urbanization are significantly determining the current values of the carbon emission. For this reason, it is suggested that the government requires some immediate steps of the USA to control the harmful effect of such financial development, more urbanization, and higher natural resource rent as well. This would indicate the reflection of some green strategies in all three explanatory variables to generate some fruitful environmental outcomes.

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confidence: 87%

The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

Huang

Sadiq

Chien

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

129

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“…Second, urbanization improves the utilization rate of public facilities and transportation, forms an industrial agglomeration, and then reduces the cost of pollution treatment, which is conducive to reducing pollution emissions. Third, more studies believe that the relationship between urbanization and air pollution is nonlinear, such as inverted U, N-shaped or U-shaped, etc (e.g., Zhao et al, 2020). Therefore, we do not prejudge the effect of urbanization on air quality.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…After a certain stage of urban development, with the improvement of people's environmental awareness, the strictness of social regulation requirements on the environment, and the upgrading of the city's leading industries from the manufacturing industry to the service industry, the degree of air pollution may decline (Zhao et al, 2020). Chinese new urbanization strategy launched in 2014 is not a policy specifically designed to affect air quality but compared with the past urbanization, there are obvious differences in energy utilization and environmental protection because the new urbanization puts forward high requirements in terms of green and low-carbon transformation development and controlling the size of the urban population through four channels: intensive urbanization, intelligent urbanization, green urbanization, and low-carbon urbanization.…”

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Does the New Urbanization Influence Air Quality in China?

Cui

2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Previous studies have empirically investigated the influence of China’s urbanization on atmosphere pollution, the findings in the literature are however controversial and inconclusive across regions, data, and methodologies. This study uses the city-level panel data, 113 key cities of environment protection from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, covering most of the provinces in China for the period 2013–2017 to investigate the different impacts of the new urbanization pilot policy on air quality and related air pollutants including six major pollutant sources, which are PM2.5, PM10, SO2, CO, NO2, and O3. The study finds that, first, based on the difference-in-difference (DID) method, the new urbanization on average tends to improve the air quality in the pilot cities. Second, based on the quantile DID method, the new urbanization tends to improve the air quality in the lower air quality quantiles (0.1–0.6); however, it has no significant impact in the higher air quality quantiles (0.7–0.9). Third, the impacts of the new urbanization on the air quality vary among different energy-related air pollutants. The new urbanization pilot policy tends to restrain SO2, PM10, and PM2.5, increase CO and O3 and has no impact on NO2. The results indicate that China should pay more attention to promote green consumption and new energy applications and increase urban construction efficiency to further reducing air pollutions in the new urbanization process.

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“…The rapid economic growth has been accompanied by a significant increase in energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (An et al, 2021). Since 2006, China has become the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (Zhao et al, 2020), and the issue of GHG emission reduction has become a growing concern. Considering the deteriorating environment and the consequential international pressure, the Chinese government has developed an ambitious GHG reduction plan (Cheong et al, 2016).…”

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Political Sensitivity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment of Leadership Change in China

Liu²,

Wu³

2022

Front. Energy Res.

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While there is extensive literature assessing the impact of command-and-control and market-incentive environmental regulation on carbon emissions, it overlooks the fact that command-and-control environmental regulation and market-incentive environmental regulation are the embodiment of the national concept of green development. When a national leader with a green development philosophy is in power, local governments (due to the competition among them) adjust the economic development strategies and targets in their jurisdictions according to the leaders’ philosophy, resulting in differences in urban carbon emissions. Based on Chinese urban panel data from 2010 to 2016, this study uses a difference-in-differences approach to assess the impact of a national leader with a green development philosophy in power on carbon emissions in cities with different political sensitivities and the mechanisms of the impact. Our study finds that after the change in national leadership, the carbon intensity of high politically sensitive cities decreases significantly compared to low politically sensitive cities. We further find that increasing urban green areas and limiting the development of high-polluting industries are two ways to reduce carbon emission intensity in highly politically sensitive cities. A heterogeneity test demonstrates that the higher the level of economic development of the region where the city is located, the fewer the number of industrial enterprises in the city, the lower the total industrial output value of the city, and the more domestic enterprises in the city, proving that the change of national leaders more significantly impacts the city’s carbon emission. Our study suggests that policymakers should pay careful attention to the system of appraisal of officials, urban greening and development of highly polluting industries, and differentiated environmental policies.

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Heterogeneity in the relationship between carbon emission performance and urbanization: evidence from China

Cited by 33 publications

References 64 publications

The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

Does the New Urbanization Influence Air Quality in China?

Political Sensitivity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment of Leadership Change in China

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