Research on the Influence Mechanism of Environmental Regulation on Carbon Emission Efficiency—Mediating Effects Based on Industrial Structure Upgrading and Green Innovation
This research explores the impact and mechanism of environmental regulation on carbon emission efficiency based on the panel data of thirty provincial administrative regions in China from 1995 to 2020,and veri-fies the path of industrial structure upgrading and green innovation by means of the mediation effect model,non-parametric percentile Bootstrap test,and Sobel test.The results show that environmental regulation with"three wastes"as the main control means promotes the improvement of regional carbon emission efficiency,green innova-tion proves an important path for the improvement of regional carbon emission efficiency by environmental regula-tion,while the advanced industrial structure has a"masking"effect on environmental regulation,and the interme-diary effect of rationalized industrial structure is not obvious.