Local Government Auditing in the People's Republic of China

Zhao, Zaozao

doi:10.1108/978-1-80117-085-720221005

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“…The government audit organizations in China are composed of the National Audit Office and local audit institutions. Previous studies suggested that the former has higher auditing independence and audit quality than the latter [ 40 , 49 , 50 ]. Thus, this paper further divides air pollution control auditing into the top-down audit and bottom-up audit.…”

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The Effect of Air Pollution Control Auditing on Reducing Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China

Zhao

Zhu

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Analyzing the carbon-emission-reduction mechanism from the perspective of air pollution control auditing is of great practical significance for China to implement the dual-carbon strategy. Based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2018, we examine whether and how the auditing of air pollution control has an impact on carbon emission reduction by using multiple regression method and the mediating analysis. Our analyses show that air pollution control auditing can significantly restrain carbon emissions but has no impact on carbon emission intensity. Further research suggests that (1) the bottom-up audit represented by local audit institutions is more effective than the top-down audit represented by the National Audit Office; (2) air pollution control auditing follows a simple and direct method to curb carbon emissions by output reduction, regulation, and shutdown, rather than promoting technological progress and green transformation of enterprises in a high-quality development mode. Those findings provide an improvement direction for air pollution control auditing to contribute to carbon emission reduction and supply relevant policy references for implementing the dual carbon strategy.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%