How Does Strengthening Environmental Justice Achieve Synergy in Reducing Pollution and Carbon?Evidence from the Establishment of the Environmental Court
The rule of law is a solid guarantee for the construction of ecological civilization.The coordinated governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction under the protection of environmental justice is an inevitable requirement for promoting the comprehensive green transformation of China's economic and social development.Since 2007,China has successively established environmental protection courts in intermediate people's courts.This article uses this quasi-natural experiment and adopts the difference-in-differences method to analyze and study the synergistic effect of environmental justice strengthening on pollution reduction and carbon reduction.Research finds that:(1)the establishment of environmental courts has reduced industrial sulfur dioxide emissions by approximately 2.8％and carbon dioxide emissions by 6.1％,and the carbon reduction effect has been more pronounced in areas with higher sulfur dioxide emissions before,indicating that there is a synergistic effect of environmental justice strengthening in pollution reduction and carbon reduction.(2)Heterogeneity testing shows that in areas with high levels of legal environment and economic growth pressure,the synergistic effect of environmental courts in reducing pollution and carbon emissions is more significant;In non-resource-based cities,the carbon reduction effect of environmental courts is more significant.(3)Mechanism testing finds that environmental courts will achieve a synergistic effect of reducing pollution and carbon emissions by improving the energy utilization efficiency of enterprises and public participation in environmental protection.(4)Further research finds that the specialized construction of environmental justice rather than judicial decentralization is an important reason for the synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.This study aims to provide empirical support and policy inspiration for China's environmental justice to promote collaborative governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
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