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Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China
Carbon emissions have become a new threat to sustainable development in China, and local government actions can play an important role in energy conservation and emission reduction. This paper explores the theoretical mechanisms and transmission paths of economic growth targets affecting carbon emis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138053 |
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author | Wang, Keliang Zhao, Bin Fan, Tianzheng Zhang, Jinning |
author_facet | Wang, Keliang Zhao, Bin Fan, Tianzheng Zhang, Jinning |
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description | Carbon emissions have become a new threat to sustainable development in China, and local government actions can play an important role in energy conservation and emission reduction. This paper explores the theoretical mechanisms and transmission paths of economic growth targets affecting carbon emissions from the perspective of economic growth targets and conducts an empirical analysis based on 30 provincial panel data in China from 2003 to 2019. The results show that: economic growth targets are positively correlated with carbon emissions under a series of endogeneity and robustness; there are regional heterogeneity, target heterogeneity and structural heterogeneity in the impact of economic growth targets on carbon emissions; after economic growth targets are set, government actions can influence carbon emissions by affecting resource mismatch and industrial restructuring; It is further found that there is a “U” shaped relationship between economic pressure and carbon emissions. Based on the above findings, this paper further proposes that a high-quality performance assessment mechanism should be developed to bring into play the active role of local governments in achieving carbon reduction goals, and thus contribute to high-quality economic development. |
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spelling | pubmed-92654432022-07-09 Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China Wang, Keliang Zhao, Bin Fan, Tianzheng Zhang, Jinning Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Carbon emissions have become a new threat to sustainable development in China, and local government actions can play an important role in energy conservation and emission reduction. This paper explores the theoretical mechanisms and transmission paths of economic growth targets affecting carbon emissions from the perspective of economic growth targets and conducts an empirical analysis based on 30 provincial panel data in China from 2003 to 2019. The results show that: economic growth targets are positively correlated with carbon emissions under a series of endogeneity and robustness; there are regional heterogeneity, target heterogeneity and structural heterogeneity in the impact of economic growth targets on carbon emissions; after economic growth targets are set, government actions can influence carbon emissions by affecting resource mismatch and industrial restructuring; It is further found that there is a “U” shaped relationship between economic pressure and carbon emissions. Based on the above findings, this paper further proposes that a high-quality performance assessment mechanism should be developed to bring into play the active role of local governments in achieving carbon reduction goals, and thus contribute to high-quality economic development. MDPI 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9265443/ /pubmed/35805709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138053 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Keliang Zhao, Bin Fan, Tianzheng Zhang, Jinning Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China |
title | Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China |
title_full | Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China |
title_fullStr | Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China |
title_full_unstemmed | Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China |
title_short | Economic Growth Targets and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China |
title_sort | economic growth targets and carbon emissions: evidence from china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138053 |
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