Synergistic effects of environmental regulations on carbon productivity growth in China’s major industrial sectors

Gao, Ge; Wang, Ke; Zhang, Chi; Wei, Yi‐Ming

doi:10.1007/s11069-018-3446-1

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“…Scholars have studied the role of each type of environmental regulation in promoting carbon emission efficiency [ 75 , 76 ], and this study focused on exploring how different types of environmental regulations can be combined to achieve high carbon emission efficiency, providing ideas for provinces to improve environmental policies. Three paths to achieving high carbon emission efficiency can be concluded from the core conditions of the four configurations, as shown in Table 7 .…”

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Influence Mechanism of Different Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency

Liu

Gong

et al. 2022

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The rational use of environmental regulation tools has become an important means by which to improve the efficiency of carbon emissions. Different types of environmental regulations and their combinations have different impacts on carbon emission efficiency. In order to determine the environmental regulation configurations that may achieve high carbon emission efficiency or lead to low carbon emission efficiency, we constructed an analytical framework of connections between environmental regulation configurations and carbon emission efficiency. Moreover, 30 Chinese provinces from the period covering 2016 to 2019 were selected as research cases. In addition, the super slacks-based measure of efficiency (SE-SBM) model was applied to evaluate carbon emission efficiency. Finally, the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method was employed to analyze the impact of different environmental regulation configurations on carbon emission efficiency. The results showed that the carbon emission efficiency of various regions of China is generally low (with most regions not having reached an effective level) and that there are large regional differences. We found that there are four environmental regulation configurations that can achieve high carbon emission efficiency and two environmental regulation configurations that lead to low carbon emission efficiency. Based on these configurations, we draw three conclusions: (1) There are three paths to achieving high carbon emission efficiency: one that values command-and-control environmental regulation but disfavors market-incentive environmental regulation, another that combines command-and-control environmental regulation with market-incentive environmental regulation, and a third that couples command-and-control environmental regulation with voluntary environmental regulation. (2) Two paths that may lead to low carbon emission efficiency were established: excessive penalties and the lack of specific measures. (3) In some conditions, environmental governance investment and fiscal expenditure could be substituted for each other; environmental protection administrative penalties and pollution charges are synchronized; environmental governance investment in the promotion of carbon emission efficiency is indispensable. Policies and suggestions on how the government can use environmental regulation tools to improve carbon emission efficiency are proposed from a general coordinative perspective in the final section of this paper.

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Influence Mechanism of Different Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency

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Gong

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“…Additionally, the existing literature on environmental regulations, carbon emissions and CEE is limited and provides inconsistent results. Gao et al [37] and Hu and Xiong [38] found that strict environmental regulations promoted the overall growth of industrial carbon productivity while Liu et al [39] showed that environmental regulations suppress carbon emissions from local manufacturing. Some scholars postulated that environmental regulations have a positive role in their contribution toward carbon abatement [13,40].…”

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

Xie

Chapman

Yan

2023

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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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“…Meanwhile, due to information asymmetry, the environmental standards set by the central government are sometimes not adapted to the local government context, making it too difficult for local governments to accomplish, thus causing environmental targets to be changed and falsified. Therefore, combining local environmental quality with performance assessment can sometimes undermine the long-term sustainability of the local economies (Gao et al 2019 ).…”

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Invisible economy, performance assessment of local governments, and environmental regulation in China

Shen

Fan

Wang

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Currently, environmental regulation in China is characterized by partial improvement and overall deterioration of the environment. To investigate the impact of China’s environmental regulation on the country’s environment, we consider the invisible economy by constructing a Stackelberg game model between local governments and polluting enterprises based on the Chinese institutional structure. We derive the following findings: (1) Increasing the invisible economic production scale causes the enterprise to reduce the pollution control level, resulting in increasing total pollutant emissions. Increasing the invisible economy production scale increases the enterprise’s profit but undermines the utility of the local government. (2) The higher the proportion of environmental performance in the performance assessment of the local government is, the greater is the incentive for the local government to regulate the environment, which can force the enterprise to improve the pollution control level. However, there is an inefficient range for the proportion of environmental performance. (3) The lenient the pollutant emissions limit is, the weaker is the local government’s environmental regulation intensity and the enterprise’s pollution control level. (4) The higher the unit fine levied on the enterprise for excessive emissions is, the lower is the environmental regulation intensity of the local government, which can bring about improvement in the enterprise’s pollution control level and reduction in total pollutant emissions. The results of the study have positive effects on sustainable environmental regulation in China under the invisible economy.

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Synergistic effects of environmental regulations on carbon productivity growth in China’s major industrial sectors

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Influence Mechanism of Different Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency

Influence Mechanism of Different Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency

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

Invisible economy, performance assessment of local governments, and environmental regulation in China

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