The Impact of Interprovincial Green Finance on Tourism Carbon Emission Intensity in China—Based on the Moderating Effect of Industrial Structure
In the era of"carbon peak and carbon neutrality",green finance is an important driving force for the tourism industry to achieve low-carbon development.Drawing on China's interprovincial panel data from 2001 to 2019,the entropy method and the"bottom-up method"are used to measure the green finance index and tourism carbon emission intensity in China.On this basis,a fixed-effect model is constructed to explore the impact of green finance on tourism carbon emission intensity,and the moderating effect of industrial structure optimization and upgrading in this process is analyzed.The results show that:①In terms of time series,the car-bon emission intensity of China's tourism industry is generally declining,and the level of green finance is generally increasing;spatial-ly,the tourism carbon emission intensity in the western region decreased significantly,followed by the central and eastern regions,and the level of green finance showed a significant differentiation pattern of"eastern>central>western".②Green finance and green tech-nology can significantly reduce the tourism carbon emission intensity.③The optimization and upgrading of industrial structure can en-hance the inhibitory effect of green finance on the tourism carbon emission intensity,and there is regional heterogeneity in the moderating effect of industrial structure optimization and upgrading on the relationship between green finance and tourism carbon emission intensity.
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