Study of the Impact of Industrial Restructuring on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Carbon Emission Intensity in Chinese Provinces—Analysis of Mediating Effects Based on Technological Innovation

Wang, Jianshi; Yu, Shangkun; Li, Mengcheng; Cheng, Yu; Wang, Chengxin

doi:10.3390/ijerph192013401

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“…Environmental regulations can affect the upgrading of industrial structure through the survival of the fittest and industrial transfer effects, thus indirectly affecting the low-carbon transformation of RBCs. The improvement of environmental regulation intensity will raise the environmental access threshold and increase the production cost of enterprises, thus eliminating small-scale enterprises, those with low production efficiency and high emission levels, while high value-added industries, clean industries and technology-intensive industries will gain advantages via the survival of the fittest mechanism [65]. Meanwhile, increased environmental regulations will force some high-emission industries to transfer to other regions and countries with weaker emission regulations [66], thereby achieving industrial structure transformation and reducing carbon emissions.…”

Section: Hypothesis 3 (H3) Environmental Regulations Have An Indirect...mentioning

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Do Environmental Regulations Facilitate a Low-Carbon Transformation in China’s Resource-Based Cities?

Xie

Chapman

Yan

2023

IJERPH

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Resource-based cities (RBCs) are not only important for ensuring national resource and energy security, but they also face serious ecological and environmental problems. To achieve China’s carbon peaking and neutrality goals in the coming years, RBCs’ achievement of a low-carbon transformation has become increasingly significant. The core of this study is an investigation as to whether governance, including environmental regulations, can facilitate the low-carbon transformation of RBCs. Based on RBC data from 2003 to 2019, we establish a dynamic panel model to research the influence and mechanism of environmental regulations on low-carbon transformation. We found that China’s environmental regulations facilitate a low-carbon transformation in RBCs. Mechanism analysis identified that the environmental regulations facilitate the low-carbon transformation in RBCs by strengthening foreign direct investment, enhancing green technology innovation and promoting industrial structure upgrading. Heterogeneity analysis found that the environmental regulations play a greater role in facilitating the low-carbon transformation of RBCs in regions with more developed economies and less dependence on resources. Our research provides theoretical and policy implications for environmental regulations for the low-carbon transformation of RBCs in China, applicable to other resource-based areas.

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Section: Hypothesis 3 (H3) Environmental Regulations Have An Indirect...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Environmental Regulations Facilitate a Low-Carbon Transformation in China’s Resource-Based Cities?

Xie

Chapman

Yan

2023

IJERPH

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“…The optimization and upgrading of industrial structure includes two aspects, one is the rationalization of industrial structure and the other is the upgrading of industrial structure. Regarding the impact of industrial structure rationalization on carbon emissions, scholars generally hold a positive attitude that the rationalization of industrial structure can curb carbon emissions [10,12,17,18] with a few subtle differences. Zhou et al [19] used China's provincial panel data from 1995 to 2009 to analyze that the rationalization of industrial structure can reduce carbon emissions, but it has a lag.…”

Section: Industrial Structure and Carbon Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the impact of industrial structure upgrading on carbon emissions, there are inhibition theory and inverted "V" relationship theory. Most scholars believe that the upgrading of industrial structure can inhibit carbon emissions [10][11][12]17]. Based on the data of 16 districts in Beijing from 2009 to 2020, Shi et al [21] pointed out that the upgrading of industrial structure has an inhibitory effect on the carbon emission intensity of the region and surrounding areas.…”

Section: Industrial Structure and Carbon Emissionsmentioning

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Impact of Industrial Structure Rationalization and Upgrading on Well-Being Performance of Carbon Emissions- Empirical Analysis Based on Chinese Provincial Level

Tong,

Tao

2023

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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The rapid economic development has caused a continuous increase in carbon emissions, which has led to a series of problems such as environmental pollution and climate change, resulting in a decline in economic, ecological and social welfare. The increase in human well-being generated by each unit of carbon emissions can be expressed in terms of well-being performance of carbon emissions. Based on provincial panel data from 2005 to 2020 in China, this paper provides an in-depth exploration of the impact of the rationalization and upgrading of industrial structure on the well-being performance of carbon emissions by constructing a fixed-effect model. The conclusions of the study are as follows:(1) The rationalization of industrial structure at this stage has not yet had an impact on well-being performance of carbon emissions, and upgrading can significantly contribute to the improvement of well-being performance of carbon emissions. (2) the impact of industrial structure upgrading on well-being performance of carbon emissions is heterogeneous. Advancedization only significantly contributes to the well-being performance of carbon emissions of eastern regions, regions with low natural resource endowments, regions with high external dependence and regions with high environmental awareness. The conclusion of the paper provides an important reference for other countries to optimize the industrial structure to improve well-being performance.

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“…Industrial structure optimization had a significant negative impact on carbon emission intensity. After controlling for the relevant variables, every 1% increase in industrial structure optimization reduced the carbon emission intensity by 1.117% [45]. Therefore, it is recommended that Chinese provinces continue accelerating the pace of industrial transformation and upgrading, promote the industrial structure in the direction of advanced development and encourage the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.…”

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“…In this way, they can improve industrial efficiency and strive to achieve low energy consumption and high output. It is crucial to accelerate the formation of knowledge and technology-intensive industries such as strategic emerging and high-tech industries [45].…”

Section: Selection Of Carbon Reduction and Sink Measuresmentioning

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Achieving Carbon Neutrality through Urban Planning and Design

Wú

Zhao

Gan

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Much of the research on climate change has focused on carbon reduction in cities or countries. However, more attention needs to be paid to how to achieve carbon neutrality in the urban design and planning stage, and the lack of quantitative analysis of carbon related to urban space makes it difficult to locate urban space and provide direct guidance for urban planning and design. This study proposed three optimization paths to achieve carbon neutrality in multi-scale urban building clusters. Firstly, we reconstructed the quantitative calculation system of urban building communities with the goal of carbon neutrality; secondly, we screened the carbon source reduction and carbon sink interventions that are suitable for multi-scale urban building communities; finally, we constructed a carbon emission and carbon sink calculation system of planning and design schemes based on the layout of relevant elements of planning and design schemes with a grid cell of 100 × 100 m. In practice, there was a gap of about 115,000 tons of CO2 from the carbon-neutral target and 26% of carbon emission was distributed in the Xiajiabian Station TOD. In this study, nine types of carbon reduction measures were adopted to achieve carbon neutrality in the region, among which the highest carbon reduction was achieved by biomass energy measures, accounting for 29% of the total carbon reduction of 33,745.27 T. The objective of this study is to accurately and quantitatively assess the carbon targets of urban spaces at different scales and adopt effective measures to achieve carbon neutrality.

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Study of the Impact of Industrial Restructuring on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Carbon Emission Intensity in Chinese Provinces—Analysis of Mediating Effects Based on Technological Innovation

Cited by 9 publications

References 54 publications

Do Environmental Regulations Facilitate a Low-Carbon Transformation in China’s Resource-Based Cities?

Do Environmental Regulations Facilitate a Low-Carbon Transformation in China’s Resource-Based Cities?

Impact of Industrial Structure Rationalization and Upgrading on Well-Being Performance of Carbon Emissions- Empirical Analysis Based on Chinese Provincial Level

Achieving Carbon Neutrality through Urban Planning and Design

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