Will the Special Economic Zone contribute to carbon neutrality? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China

Xu, Wanting; Yang, Peijin; Xiao, Yao

doi:10.1080/13504851.2022.2107607

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“…The majority of the pertinent studies currently available have concentrated on how single industrial agglomeration affects carbon emissions, and rare research has involved the link between industrial coagglomeration and carbon emissions. Lu et al [ 15 ], Xu et al [ 16 ], Huang et al [ 17 ], and Chen et al [ 18 ] indicate that industrial agglomeration results in more carbon emissions. By contrast, Peng et al [ 19 ] argue that industrial agglomeration alleviates carbon emissions through technology and knowledge spillovers, economies of scale, and industrial structure optimization.…”

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Industrial Coagglomeration, Green Innovation, and Manufacturing Carbon Emissions: Coagglomeration’s Dynamic Evolution Perspective

Zhang

Rongping

Fentaw

et al. 2022

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The achievement of China’s low-carbon development and carbon neutrality depends heavily on the decrease of manufacturing carbon emissions. From coagglomeration’s dynamic evolution perspective, by using panel-threshold-STIRPAT and mediation-STIRPAT models, this study examines the relationships among industrial coagglomeration, green innovation, and manufacturing carbon emissions and explores the direct and indirect function mechanisms. Panel data of China’s 30 provinces from 2010 to 2019 are employed. The results imply that, first, the impact of industrial coagglomeration on manufacturing carbon emissions is nonlinear and has significant threshold effects. Industrial coagglomeration negatively affects manufacturing carbon emissions, and as the coagglomeration level deepens, the negative effect has a diminishing trend in marginal utility. Once the coagglomeration degree exceeds a certain threshold, the negative impact becomes insignificant. At present, for 90% of China’s regions, an increase in industrial coagglomeration level can help reduce manufacturing carbon emissions. Second, green innovation is a vital intermediary between industrial coagglomeration and manufacturing carbon emissions. It is a partial intermediary when industrial coagglomeration is at a relatively lower-level stage and a complete intermediary when industrial coagglomeration is at a relatively higher-level stage. These findings reveal the significance of optimizing industrial coagglomeration and the level and efficiency of green innovation to decrease carbon emissions.

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Industrial Coagglomeration, Green Innovation, and Manufacturing Carbon Emissions: Coagglomeration’s Dynamic Evolution Perspective

Zhang

Rongping

Fentaw

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Development zone policy and urban carbon emissions: empirical evidence from the construction of national high-tech industrial development zones in China

Wang

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Can place-based policy reduce carbon emissions? Evidence from industrial transformation and upgrading exemplary zone in China

Feng,

Wang,

Nie

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The effect of the place-based policies on sustainable development has received substantial attention in economic research. In China, the industrial transformation and upgrading exemplary zone policy is a prominent example of such policies, as it targets old industrial and resource-based cities. The paper provides an early assessment of the policy’s capability to reduce carbon emissions. Specifically, we use data from old industrial and resource-based cities for the period of 2012–2019 and apply the difference-in-differences method to examine the policy’s influence on total carbon emissions and intensity. The results show that the policy can effectively reduce carbon emissions through reducing energy consumption, promoting urban green innovation and tertiary industry agglomeration. Compared to resource-based cities, cities with a low level of economic development and central, western cities, this impact is more notable in old industrial cities, cities with a high level of economic development and eastern cities. Additional analysis reveals that the policy has beneficial spatial radiation impacts on the nearby cities as well. In the meanwhile, the strategy may have a synergy effect on reducing carbon emissions and pollution. The results of this study may have an impact on how nations implement place-based policies and reduce carbon emissions.

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Will the Special Economic Zone contribute to carbon neutrality? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China

Cited by 3 publications

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Industrial Coagglomeration, Green Innovation, and Manufacturing Carbon Emissions: Coagglomeration’s Dynamic Evolution Perspective

Industrial Coagglomeration, Green Innovation, and Manufacturing Carbon Emissions: Coagglomeration’s Dynamic Evolution Perspective

Development zone policy and urban carbon emissions: empirical evidence from the construction of national high-tech industrial development zones in China

Can place-based policy reduce carbon emissions? Evidence from industrial transformation and upgrading exemplary zone in China

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