Abatement costs of combatting industrial water pollution: convergence across Chinese provinces

The Impact of Auditing Centralization on Carbon Productivity: Evidence From China’s Vertical Management Auditing Reform

“…To test the externality of instrumental variables, we exclude the sample data of 2015 and subsequent years and regress instrumental variables on carbon productivity. Column (3) presents that the result is insignificant, indicating that instrumental variables can not affect carbon productivity directly before the auditing reform. Column (4) reports the regression result of the core explanatory variable and instrumental variables on carbon productivity.…”

“…To verify the mechanism between vertical management auditing reform and carbon productivity, we construct model (3). Meditor it is the mediating variable of this paper, including the frequency of environmental protection words (lner), the rationalization index of industrial structure (lntl), the number of green inventions of utility models per capita (perugrma), and the energy efficiency (lnenergyeffi).…”

“…It hurts the environment and human health, contributing to the melting of glaciers, extreme temperatures, and weather events [1][2]. Besides, environmental pollution causes significant property damage due to high environmental costs [3]. The costs of climate damage are about 1.5% and 0.7% of China's GDP and global GDP per 1ºC temperature rise on average [4].…”