Pollution Reduction and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Manufacturing Industry Under Clean Production Standards:From the Source Control Perspective
This paper utilizes micro-level data obtained from cross-database matching between industrial enterprise data-bases and industrial pollution databases.Leveraging China's initial implementation of clean production standards as a quasi-natural experiment,this paper examines the effects of these standards on pollution reduction and carbon mitigation in man-ufacturing enterprises from the perspective of source control.The results show that:(1)The implementation of clean pro-duction standards significantly reduces the carbon emission intensity and pollution generation intensity of manufacturing en-terprises.(2)Factor reconfiguration effects and technological compensation effects are vital pathways driving manufacturing enterprises toward production-side pollution reduction and carbon mitigation.(3)The application of a triple-difference model for heterogeneous analysis of the sample reveals that the effects of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation in manu-facturing enterprises vary depending on enterprise characteristics such as external financing constraints and regional charac-teristics such as coal resource endowment and overall pollution control capabilities.
environmental regulationpollution reduction and carbon reductioncleaner productioncarbon emission intensity