Is the “pollution haven hypothesis” valid for China’s carbon trading system? A re-examination based on inter-provincial carbon emission transfer

Nie, Xin; Chen, Zhoupeng; Wang, Han; Wu, Jianxian; Wu, Xingyi; Lu, Bo; Li, Qiu; Li, Yuanyuan

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-18737-7

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“…According to the research of Nie et al, environmental regulation can improve the environmental quality of regions by prompting the transfer of high-emission and high-pollution enterprises, accompanied by the optimization of the local energy consumption structure and the transformation and upgrading of the local IS [38]. Nevertheless, environmental regulation can promote innovation in green technology, thus improving the quality of the local environment [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

Can Green Finance Mitigate China’s Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution? An Analysis of Spatial Spillover and Mediation Pathways

Liu,

Yang,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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China faces a multi-objective environmental governance dilemma involving achieving fundamental ecological environment improvement, carbon peaking, and carbon neutrality. In this study, we constructed indicators of the level of green finance development through the entropy-weighted TOPSIS evaluation model, and adopted the two-way fixed-effect spatial Durbin model (SDM) and the multiple spatial mediation effect model to explore the impacts and paths of green finance as a policy tool to promote environmental sustainability in carbon emissions and environmental pollution using panel data from 30 provinces in China between 2007 and 2019. The research results show that green finance (GF) can significantly reduce carbon emission intensity (CEI) and air pollution (AP). Moreover, the role of GF in reducing AP becomes weaker due to increased levels of green finance in neighboring regions negatively affecting local air quality. Mediation path analysis shows that GF reduces CEI and AP mainly by promoting the optimization of energy structures and technological progress. The results of regional heterogeneity analysis show that there is variability in the pathway of the impact of GF on CEI and AP in different regions, and the Western region is more sensitive to GF policies. Therefore, policymakers should give their full attention to the functions of GF to mitigate China’s carbon emissions and environmental pollution.

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confidence: 99%

Can Green Finance Mitigate China’s Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution? An Analysis of Spatial Spillover and Mediation Pathways

Liu,

Yang,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…The pollution haven hypothesis exists when a foreign investment has positive nexus with carbon emission and there are several studies that confirm the validation of the pollution haven hypothesis. [24][25][26][27][28] On the other hand, many scholars confirmed the negative impact of foreign investment on carbon emissions. 29,30 Furthermore, the stream of the literature related to our work focuses on the interconnection between economic performance and environmental quality.…”

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“…In the scientific analysis of the impact of technological innovation, the expected result and relationship with the environment are positive. Also, FDI and agriculture are part of the drivers of the environment and economic growth and their impacts could be either positive 29,30 or negative [24][25][26][27][28] to the development of both environment and economic growth. The spillover effect of FDI through the introduction and sharing of skills and knowledge across the board of the host economy will amount to economies scale and the betterment of the environment with new technologies from developed economies.…”

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“…The economic importance of foreign investors in the host countries (especially the developing countries) always outweighs the environmental importance of the countries because of the quest to catch up with the trend of economic growth by the authorities of some of the countries. The environmental implication of FDI has been studied by many authors [24][25][26][27][28][29][30] who come up with non-unified results. As a result, theory of the impact of FDI on environmental performance has been proposed, hence, the pollution haven hypothesis and pollution halo hypothesis.…”

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Interactions among technological innovation, foreign direct investment, and agriculture: A symmetric and asymmetric study of inclusive sustainable development

Emir

Udemba

Khan

et al. 2022

Energy & Environment

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This study examines the Indian inclusive sustainable development. India ranked third in global carbon emissions amidst its economic performance. This tells more about one-sided sustainable development policy of the country. With this trend of development anchored only on Indian economic activities, we consider it important to research the economy with instruments (such as technological innovation, foreign direct investment (FDI), and agriculture) that are unique to the country. India's data from 1980 to 2019 are applied to this study with two models for testing both economic and environmental developments. We utilized two scientific methods (non-linear autoregressive distributive lag (NARDL) and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS)) to demonstrate both symmetric and asymmetric technical analyses. Findings from NARDL show that technological innovation and FDI are mitigating carbon emissions, while economic growth and agriculture are increasing carbon emissions thereby impacting negatively the environment. Also, the result from the economic model confirms that all variables are impacting favorably on economic development except carbon emission. The findings from DOLS support the findings from NARDL. The result confirmed that India is yet to attain inclusive sustainable development, however, it is evident that with the right policy framed on tech innovation and FDI, the country could attain balanced sustainable development. Having seen, the dual capacity of both technological innovation and FDI toward strengthening both the economy and environment, it is worthy to consider these instruments as among the sustainable policies

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Investigating the multiple mechanisms of tourism economy affecting sustainable urban development of Chinese cities: based on multi-source data

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2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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Is the “pollution haven hypothesis” valid for China’s carbon trading system? A re-examination based on inter-provincial carbon emission transfer

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Can Green Finance Mitigate China’s Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution? An Analysis of Spatial Spillover and Mediation Pathways

Can Green Finance Mitigate China’s Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution? An Analysis of Spatial Spillover and Mediation Pathways

Interactions among technological innovation, foreign direct investment, and agriculture: A symmetric and asymmetric study of inclusive sustainable development

Investigating the multiple mechanisms of tourism economy affecting sustainable urban development of Chinese cities: based on multi-source data

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