Does Public Environmental Concern Promote Synergies in Pollution and Carbon Reduction?Mechanism Investigation From Residents and Enterprises
In the context of the urgent need for synergy in pollution and carbon reduction,exploring the effectiveness and efficiency path of coordinated pollution and carbon reduction that the public is concerned about is conducive to realizing the Chinese-style modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a pluralistic and co-governed environmental governance system.Based on the data of 277 cities above the prefecture level in China from 2011 to 2021,the two-way fixed-effect model and two-stage least squares regression model were used to evaluate the effectiveness of coordinated pollution reduction and carbon reduction of public environmental concerns,and verified the possible mechanism of action.It is found that public environmental concerns significantly promote the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction,and this conclusion is still true after the robustness test.The heterogeneity analysis shows that the effectiveness of collaborative governance continues to weaken with the expansion of city scale,and the collaborative governance effect of resource cities is more obvious than that of non-resource cities.The mechanism analysis shows that public environmental attention drives the green technology progress of enterprises,and promotes the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction with innovative incentive effect.At the same time,public environmental attention has cultivated residents'green energy-saving lifestyle,and promoted the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction with the optimization effect of energy conservation.
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