Impact of China's establishment of ecological civilization pilot zones on carbon dioxide emissions

Zhang, Yixiang; Fu, Bowen

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116652

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“…In the research on ecological civilization construction, evaluation of the effect of pilot policies has always been hotspot of research. Among them, research on "ecological civilization pilot demonstration area" is mainly carried out on the provincial (Lv et al, 2022) or national scale (Zhang and Fu, 2023), and the synthetic control method (Chai et al, 2022;Wang K L et al, 2022) and difference-in-difference model (Hou et al, 2022; are the mostly used methods. It has been found that the construction of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area can improve agricultural green efficiency (Lu and Xiong, 2020) and ecological total factor productivity (Pan et al, 2022), as well as inhibit carbon emissions (Zhang and Fu, 2023).…”

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“…Among them, research on "ecological civilization pilot demonstration area" is mainly carried out on the provincial (Lv et al, 2022) or national scale (Zhang and Fu, 2023), and the synthetic control method (Chai et al, 2022;Wang K L et al, 2022) and difference-in-difference model (Hou et al, 2022; are the mostly used methods. It has been found that the construction of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area can improve agricultural green efficiency (Lu and Xiong, 2020) and ecological total factor productivity (Pan et al, 2022), as well as inhibit carbon emissions (Zhang and Fu, 2023). Some studies are also focused on ecological civilization construction and new urbanization (Wang W X et al, 2022), resource recycling , and industrial green transformation .…”

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Effect of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction on urban land green use efficiency

Wang

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Improvement of urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE) in the context of sustained economic growth is a major challenge for the regional sustainable development and ecological civilization construction in China. This study measures the ULGUE of 263 cities in China at the prefecture or above level, clarifies its spatio-temporal changes, investigates the effect of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction on ULGUE with the multi-period PSM-DID model and spatial Durbin difference model, and evaluates the spatial spillover effect of the policy. The results show that: 1) In terms of spatio-temporal changes, ULGUE shows a steady upward trend with time. From 2006 to 2019, the national mean value of ULGUE increases from 0.5284 to 0.6439, with an increase rate of 21.86%; in the spatial dimension, ULGUE is characterized by a pattern of eastern > national > central > western. 2) Ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction has significantly improved the ULGUE of pilot cities by about 0.12% relative to that of non-pilot cities, which was validated by the robustness test. 3) Ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction has significant positive spillover effects on the ULGUE of neighboring cities, which are related to the urban characteristics such as geographical location, resource endowment, and environmental protection intensity. 4) Ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction has certain heterogeneity in its effect on ULGUE in different regions and cities, with a more significant promoting effect for non-eastern regions, non-resource-based cities, and non-key cities of environmental protection. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize the successful experience of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction and fully consider differential policies, so as to maximize the policy dividends while strengthening regional linkage, and further contribute to national popularization of this policy.

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Effect of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction on urban land green use efficiency

Wang

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Studies show that the economic development level is the primary driver that may affect CO 2 emissions [28]; furthermore, technological progress contributes significantly to reducing CO 2 emissions [29], and the energy consumption structure is the leading factor affecting the difference in CO 2 emissions [30]. Additionally, environmental policies play an important part in CO 2 emissions, such as environmental regulations being a fundamental reason for curbing CO 2 emissions [31,32]. Furthermore, the STIRPAT model, IPAT model, EKC curve, Kaya constant equation, and LMDI model were used to evaluate the impact of CO 2 emissions [24,[33][34][35].…”

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Mechanism and Spatial Spillover Effect of New-Type Urbanization on Urban CO2 Emissions: Evidence from 250 Cities in China

Liu

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Exploring the effect of new-type urbanization (NTU) on urban carbon abatement is of great practical significance for promoting urban green construction and coping with the challenge of global climate change. This study used data from 250 cities in China from 2008 to 2020 and constructed the NTU evaluation indicator system from five dimensions. We used classical panel regression models to examine the effects of NTU on urban CO2 emissions, and further used spatial econometric models of SEM, SAR, and SDM to identify the spatial spillover effects of NTU on urban CO2 emissions. The main results are that China’s NTU and CO2 emissions are generally rising, and NTU has a significantly negative effect on urban CO2 emissions, with an impact coefficient of −0.9339; the conclusions still hold after subsequent robustness tests. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that NTU’s carbon abatement effect is more pronounced in resource-based cities, old industrial areas, and cities with lower urbanization levels and higher innovation levels. Mechanism analysis shows that improving urban technological innovation and optimizing resource allocation are important paths for realizing urban CO2 emission reduction. NTU’s effect on urban CO2 emissions has a noticeable spatial spillover. Our findings provide policy makers with solid support for driving high-quality urban development and dual-carbon targets.

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“…Currently, existing research on the assessment of the effects of environmental regulation is centred around environmental governance effects and the impact on economic development. It has been proved theoretically and empirically that market-incentivised environmental regulation effectively reduces carbon dioxide emissions (Hu et al, 2020;Chang et al, 2023). It is also able to have an impact on macroareas such as low-carbon development of the economy (Khaddage-Soboh et al, 2023;Wang et al, 2019), optimisation of industrial structure (Zhou et al, 2022), regional employment scale (Yang et al, 2020), poverty alleviation of the rural population (Zhang and Zhang, 2020), foreign direct investment (Shao et al, 2022), technological innovation and innovation spillovers of enterprises (Yang et al, 2023;Yu et al, 2023), enterprise total factor productivity (Wu and Wang, 2022), enterprise value (Luo et al, 2023), enterprise financial performance (Yu et al, 2022), and other micro subjects to have a positive impact.…”

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Has heterogeneous environmental regulation promoted a cleaner transition in China's energy consumption structure?

Chang

2023

Preprint

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At present, the world energy resources map is undergoing profound changes. Global energy technology is brewing a profound change, and all countries are committed to the transition to green and low-carbon energy. This paper refers to the study of Acemoglu (2012) and discusses the impact of heterogeneous environmental regulations on the energy consumption structure at the theoretical level by building a two-sector model that includes both clean energy and traditional energy outputs. Then, based on China's provincial panel data from 2007 to 2020, we examine the impact of heterogeneous environmental regulations on the structure of energy consumption using fixed effects and double difference methods. It is found that the double substitution and decarbonisation effects of command-and-control environmental regulations on energy are not significant due to the influence of regional resource endowment and the level of regional economic development. However, market-incentivised environmental regulation significantly reduces the proportion of coal consumption, strengthens the substitution effect of clean energy for nonclean energy, and significantly improves the decarbonisation index of the energy consumption structure. This paper provides more theoretical support and empirical evidence for the government to use heterogeneous environmental regulations to promote energy consumption structure transformation.

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Impact of China's establishment of ecological civilization pilot zones on carbon dioxide emissions

Cited by 29 publications

References 62 publications

Effect of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction on urban land green use efficiency

Effect of ecological civilization pilot demonstration area construction on urban land green use efficiency

Mechanism and Spatial Spillover Effect of New-Type Urbanization on Urban CO2 Emissions: Evidence from 250 Cities in China

Has heterogeneous environmental regulation promoted a cleaner transition in China's energy consumption structure?

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