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How the Pilot Low-Carbon City Policy Promotes Urban Green Innovation: Based on Temporal-Spatial Dual Perspectives

Enhancing green innovation levels is an important objective of the pilot low-carbon city policy (PLCC) in China, but the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the PLCC policy’s effect on green innovation is unclear. Based on panel data from 285 Chinese cities during 2005–2020, this paper assesses th...

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Autores principales: Yue, Xianghua, Zhao, Shikuan, Ding, Xin, Xin, Long
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36612887
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010561
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Zhao, Shikuan
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description Enhancing green innovation levels is an important objective of the pilot low-carbon city policy (PLCC) in China, but the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the PLCC policy’s effect on green innovation is unclear. Based on panel data from 285 Chinese cities during 2005–2020, this paper assesses the impact of PLCC on regional green innovation using the difference-in-difference (DID) method. The empirical results demonstrate that the PLCC can obviously promote urban green innovation. In terms of the temporal dimension, the policy effect of PLCC on regional green innovation shows an inverted “U” shape and peaks in the seventh year after implementation. From the spatial dimension, the PLCC can promote surrounding cities’ green innovation through spatial spillover effects within 200 km, and the spillover effect decreases with increasing distance. Mechanism analysis indicates that the PLCC policy can promote regional green innovation by enhancing regional environmental regulations and alleviating financing constraints. This paper explores the temporal and spatial policy effects of PLCC, which can provide effective paths and policy recommendations for China to achieve its “dual carbon” goals.
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spelling pubmed-98193872023-01-07 How the Pilot Low-Carbon City Policy Promotes Urban Green Innovation: Based on Temporal-Spatial Dual Perspectives Yue, Xianghua Zhao, Shikuan Ding, Xin Xin, Long Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Enhancing green innovation levels is an important objective of the pilot low-carbon city policy (PLCC) in China, but the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the PLCC policy’s effect on green innovation is unclear. Based on panel data from 285 Chinese cities during 2005–2020, this paper assesses the impact of PLCC on regional green innovation using the difference-in-difference (DID) method. The empirical results demonstrate that the PLCC can obviously promote urban green innovation. In terms of the temporal dimension, the policy effect of PLCC on regional green innovation shows an inverted “U” shape and peaks in the seventh year after implementation. From the spatial dimension, the PLCC can promote surrounding cities’ green innovation through spatial spillover effects within 200 km, and the spillover effect decreases with increasing distance. Mechanism analysis indicates that the PLCC policy can promote regional green innovation by enhancing regional environmental regulations and alleviating financing constraints. This paper explores the temporal and spatial policy effects of PLCC, which can provide effective paths and policy recommendations for China to achieve its “dual carbon” goals. MDPI 2022-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9819387/ /pubmed/36612887 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010561 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/).
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