Reducing pollution and carbon emissions:The synergistic effects of low-carbon city pilots
Ecological environmental protection and carbon peaking & carbon neutrality are the two strategic tasks for ecological civilization construction in China.As a comprehensive environmental policy,low-carbon city pilots provide a good policy perspective to explore the practical effects of pollution reduction and carbon emissions.Based on the data of 281 prefectural-level cities,this study established the difference-in-differences model to investigate the effects of the policy of low-carbon city pilots on the synergy of environmental pollution and carbon emissions,and to further explain the influencing mechanism and analyze the heterogeneity.The results showed that:1)In low-carbon city pilots,urban environmental pollution is significantly reduced while carbon emissions being mitigated,which achieves the synergistic governance of reduction pollution and carbon emissions.2)Pilot cities have achieved policy effects through three influencing mechanisms:scale effect,structural effect,and technological effect.3)Those cities which are in the eastern region,or with smaller population scale,or higher administrative level,demonstrate more significant policy effects.Therefore,this paper proposes policy recommendations to optimize policy design,enhance policy effectiveness,and classify implementation orderly to promote the synergy of reducing pollution and carbon emissions under the construction of low-carbon cities.
reducing pollution and carbon emissionslow-carbon city pilotssynergistic governancedifference-in-differences
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