Provincial air pollution responsibility and environmental tax of China based on interregional linkage indicators

Lü, Yanbin; Wang, Yuan; Zhang, Wei; Hubacek, Klaus; Bi, Fenfen; Zuo, Jian; Jiang, Hongqiang; Zhang, Zengkai; Feng, Kuishuang; Liu, Yu; Xue, Wenhao

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.293

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“…Environmental taxes have a significant, negative relationship with carbon emissions, demonstrating that environmental taxes have proven to be a successful strategy against environmental degradation. However, we suggest that environmental taxes should be distributed over a longer time frame to allow businesses to adapt to environmental policies while also maintaining economic competitiveness [113]. Our findings support the existing economic literature that OECD environmental efforts play positive role in reducing GHG emissions [10,80].…”

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The nexus between environmental tax and carbon emissions with the roles of environmental technology and financial development

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This study evaluates the impacts of renewable energy, environmental taxes, environmental technology, and financial development on carbon emissions in OECD economies from 1995 to 2015 by employing system-GMM and quantile regression approaches. Our empirical analysis indicates that environmental tax negatively affects carbon emissions; economic growth impedes environmental quality by increasing carbon emissions. Further, renewable energy consumption, environmental technology, and financial development improve environmental quality by decreasing carbon emissions. We suggest that changes in policymaking to promote sustainable economic growth and environmental quality should be prevent environmental degradation, but also inspire greater investments in new technologies and energy expertise in the renewables industry.

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The nexus between environmental tax and carbon emissions with the roles of environmental technology and financial development

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“…Through a combination of regional and sectoral emission inventories, MRIO can effectively uncover the pollutant emissions in other regions caused by the consumption of a given region (Wiedmann et al, 2011). These features make MRIO a popular method to quantify trade activities and their national or regional environmental impacts (Li et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2017a;Zhao et al, 2017;Lu et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2017). Recently, the MRIO model has been widely used to quantify emissions transfer attributable to trade, because it considers economic output at both the regional and sectorial level, as well as the output of one region as consumed in another region (Davis et al, 2010;Lenzen et al, 2012;Wiedmann et al, 2015).…”

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“…The rapid development of China's heavy industry and the intensive use of energy have caused severe air pollution and negative public health impacts in China over the past few decades, which has become a significant environmental problem in China (Zhang et al, 2019). The latest Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution emphasizes collaborative efforts across administrative boundaries for emissions control and pollution prevention [Ministry of Ecology and Environmental Protection of China (MEPC), 2018].…”

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“…Recently, a third type of research has attempted to combine the multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model with the atmospheric transport of pollution model, to determine the concentrations of pollutants produced by emissions driven by consumption. These studies have focused on the coupling of atmospheric transport and trade at the country or provincial scales, such as China and the United States (Lin et al, 2014), among countries worldwide (Zhang et al, 2017) and among multiple Chinese provinces (Li et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2019;Zhao et al, 2017). Many studies have considered the impact of atmospheric pollutant transmission and economic consumption, but most of them are between various countries and provinces.…”

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Linkage analysis of economic consumption, pollutant emissions and concentrations based on a city-level multi-regional input–output (MRIO) model and atmospheric transport

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Journal of Environmental Management

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China is experiencing serious atmospheric pollution, which also exhibits significant spatial heterogeneity. The Chinese government has implemented targeted pollution control measures at the city level, emphasizing coordination among cities to prevent and control air pollution in key regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration. This study combined an inter-city multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model with an air quality dispersion model consisting of a weather research and forecasting (WRF) model and the CALPUFF model (WRF/CALPUFF) to study the inter-city economic consumption, pollutant emission and concentration among 13 cities in BTH urban agglomeration. NOx is chosen as an example. The combined effects of economic linkage and atmospheric transport show that NOx concentrations in cities in the BTH urban agglomeration are attributable to three consumption sources: a local contribution from the target city's own local economic consumption (average, 25%), and non-local consumption contributions, including other cities in the BTH urban agglomeration (average, 36%) and regions outside of BTH (average, 39%). Compared with the contributions to NOx concentrations calculated using only the MRIO model or atmospheric transport stimulation model, the results of this paper quantify that the consumption outside of a city could provide a greater impact on the city's air quality due to the combined effects of economic linkage and atmospheric transport. To avoid negative impacts of emission reduction targets on economic consumption, governmental regional pollution control policies should consider the combined effects of economic linkage and atmospheric transport.

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“…Under certain geographical and meteorological conditions, atmospheric pollutants diffuse and accumulate on a certain spatial scale. Air pollutants flow freely between cities and urban agglomerations and undergo trans-boundary transport, characterized by a combination of regional pollution and compound pollution, with regional joint prevention and control of pollutant transport becoming the focus of atmospheric environmental issues in China (Wu et al, 2013b;Miao et al, 2017;Lu et al, 2019a).…”

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Meteorological formation mechanism of regional transport in winter heavy air pollution events in the middle Yangtze River area, China

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Zhao

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Abstract. Anthropogenic emission, meteorological conditions, and regional transport are the three major factors influencing heavy air pollution in China. The Hunan and Hubei provinces in the middle Yangtze River region border China's main air pollution areas, serving as the hub of regional transport of air pollutants. The meteorological formation mechanism of regional transport of air pollutants on heavy air pollution in the Hunan and Hubei provinces still remain urgent to be addressed in depth. In this study, multivariate empirical orthogonal function (MV-EOF) analysis was performed to objectively select eight typical heavy pollution events in the two provinces that occured in January 2015–2019. Based on the regional surface environment, meteorological network data, atmospheric sounding data, ERA-interim reanalysis data, and a numerical simulation experiment, this study investigated the pattern of regional transport of air pollutants in the two provinces and its mechanism of regional meteorological conditions. The results showed that transporting air pollutants mainly passed through two transport pathways, namely the Nanxiang Basin-Yunmeng Plain pathway and the Dabie Mountain's Hilly Area-Yunmeng Plain pathway, existing anomalous near-surface northerly winds in the two provinces and their upstream area accompanied by southward penetration of a shallow cold layer, all of which jointly provide a dynamic condition for regional air pollutant transport. The weak cold-air mass degenerated as it passed through the Hunan–Hubei Plain, causing warm air to accumulate in the near-surface layer of the downstream area, where winds slowed down and converged, buffering the air pollutant transport and resulting in pollutants accumulation; the near-surface atmosphere of the Hunan and Hubei provinces was a non-stagnant condition (dry intrusion of cold air, anomalous northerly winds, and positive anomalies of boundary-layer height), which is conducive to the horizontal transport of air pollutants. However, the mid-high layers, characterized by temperature inversion and the presence of a warm lid, had a stable stratification, inhibiting the diffusion of air pollutants to the upper layers; there is an obvious longitudinal vertical circulation above the Hunan–Hubei Plain, which results in the sinking and accumulation of air pollutants, thereby promoting rapid accumulation of air pollutants in the Hunan and Hubei provinces. In addition, extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) analysis was performed, revealing a quasi-4-d periodic oscillation pattern of air pollutants transport in the Hunan and Hubei provinces, which provides a reference for early prediction of its regional transport. The findings are of practical value in broadening the scientific understanding of the differences in the formation mechanism of heavy atmospheric pollution between the various regions of China and promoting environmental and ecological protection of the middle Yangtze Basin.

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Provincial air pollution responsibility and environmental tax of China based on interregional linkage indicators

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Cited by 55 publications

References 32 publications

The nexus between environmental tax and carbon emissions with the roles of environmental technology and financial development

The nexus between environmental tax and carbon emissions with the roles of environmental technology and financial development

Linkage analysis of economic consumption, pollutant emissions and concentrations based on a city-level multi-regional input–output (MRIO) model and atmospheric transport

Meteorological formation mechanism of regional transport in winter heavy air pollution events in the middle Yangtze River area, China

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