Can green finance policy reduce energy consumption: quasi-natural experimental evidence from green finance reform and innovations pilot zone

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13

Опубликована: Фев. 24, 2025

Introduction The Green Finance Pilot Policy is a crucial initiative in China’s green finance reform, playing significant role reducing energy consumption and achieving carbon neutrality goals. This study examines whether the establishment of reform innovation pilot zones effectively reduces explores underlying mechanisms its impact. Methods Using panel data from 30 provincial-level administrative regions China 2013 to 2021, this employs staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) model as quasi-natural experiment. analysis evaluates effect policy on investigates mediating effects industrial structure optimization innovation. Results results indicate that significantly reduce levels, conclusion remains robust after series robustness tests. Mechanism reveals primarily by optimizing promoting Discussion These findings provide new evidence for understanding impact offer insights further unlocking energy-saving potential policy. suggests deepening institutional frameworks, establishing long-term support mechanisms, implementation strategies enhance effectiveness conservation emissions reduction.

Язык: Английский

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Does energy-consuming right trading policy achieve a low-carbon transition of the energy structure? A quasi-natural experiment from China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12

Опубликована: Янв. 8, 2025

Introduction The implementation of energy-consuming right trading (ECRT) policy in 2017 is a major measure to promote the construction ecological civilization and green development, which also aligns with global trend towards sustainable energy management carbon emission reduction. Methods Based on consumption data China from 2010 2021, this paper utilizes Difference-in-Differences (DID) method assess extent process impact consuming low-carbon transition structure. transmission mechanism industrial structure upgrading new-quality productive forces was discussed, regulatory role environmental regulations tested. Results findings indicate: 1) ECRT has strong driving effect 2) can through dual channel promoting new quality forces. 3) influence different regions, higher degree agglomeration renewable energy-rich regions are more significantly promoted by productivity. 4) Environmental regulation significant positive moderating relationship between 5) Furthermore, exploratory analysis reveals that impacts policies Transition translates into total factor productivity lower pollution, promotes development Discussion This responds basic question whether use rights structure, provides empirical evidence reference not only for China’s direction but international community’s efforts governance.

Язык: Английский

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Can digital governance stimulate green development? Evidence from the program of “pilot cities regarding information for public well-being” in China

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12

Опубликована: Фев. 4, 2025

Digital governance is an important goal of government digital transformation, and the policy “pilot cities regarding information for public well-being” in China initiative to promote reform system realize green development. Based on panel data 282 from 2007 2020, this paper analyzes mechanism path impact development using program as a quasi-natural experiment. The double-difference model mediation effect are utilized. results show that can significantly development, influence supererogation rationalization industrial structure, i.e., by enhancing structure. In addition, there obvious heterogeneity exerts stronger economically developed than backward cities, large small- medium-sized cities. Therefore, relevant departments should continue optimize pilot well-being, strive improve government’s governance, focus small-sized actively cultivate optimization upgrading vigorously support cross-regional exchanges cooperation, so jointly achieve high-quality

Язык: Английский

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Residents’ Internet use, family economic status, and self-rated health: gender-based differences

BMC Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 25(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 20, 2025

People's health is an important foundation for national development. This study uses data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to empirically test impact of residents' Internet use and family economic status on self-rated health. The empirical research results show that, first, significantly promote their Second, a gender difference exists in how affect Third, after introducing interaction term between status, it found that negatively regulates promotion health, suggesting substitution effect these two factors. Finally, heterogeneity finds effects vary by region, registered residence, age group. suggests government can further improve penetration, create good access environment, strengthen skills training, enhance content construction. These measures amplify positive

Язык: Английский

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Impact of national health city campaign on public health in China

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Establishing a national health city is an important policy aimed at optimizing urban environment and improving residents' health. A rigorous evaluation of the policy's impact on China's public imperative. Such would provide scientific foundation for continuous improvement enhance overall population. Based panel data 84 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2023, this study takes healthy as quasi-natural experiment, employs DID model deeply explore National Health City Campaign (NHCC) China. The research indicates that has led decline mortality rates contributed enhancement certain extent. NHCC varies across different regions, economic development levels, population sizes. In addition, determined capable achieving substantial enhancements levels by promoting optimization upgrading industrial structure. sewage treatment rate found be regulatory nature. This instrumental enhancing policy, providing theoretical city, plays pivotal role promotion Healthy Initiative.

Язык: Английский

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Legal innovations for balancing environmental protection and public health in urban polluted areas

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13

Опубликована: Май 30, 2025

Introduction Balancing environmental protection with public health in urban polluted areas presents significant governance and legal challenges. Traditional regulatory approaches often operate silos, failing to integrate sustainability policies, leading inefficiencies inequitable outcomes. Methods This study introduces the Resilient Ecosystem Management Framework (REMF), an interdisciplinary approach that combines innovations, adaptive mechanisms, data-driven strategies. It critically analyzes limitations of existing frameworks addressing pollution associated risks. REMF is developed by integrating instruments, participatory governance, real-time monitoring. Case studies quantitative modeling are applied evaluate framework's effectiveness environments. Results The findings demonstrate enhances policy coordination, enables more effective enforcement, improves outcomes leveraging adaptability technological advancements. Real-time data predictive analytics allow for dynamic adjustments thresholds, ensuring responsive equitable governance. Discussion Moreover, framework facilitates active stakeholder engagement, vulnerable populations benefit from mitigation efforts. research provides a scalable replicable model aligns law imperatives, offering practical insights policymakers, planners, regulators. By demonstrating how can evolve address contemporary challenges, this contributes broader discourse on sustainable justice.

Язык: Английский

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The impact of green finance reform on industrial water pollution: Evidence from innovation pilot zones in China

Water Economics and Policy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 31, 2024

Taking advantage of green finance to achieve the synergistic growth in economy and ecology is a critical issue China’s modernization. This paper first constructs theoretical model including sector illustrate reduction effect on Industrial Water Pollution (IWP). Then, through panel data 265 prefecture-level cities China, we construct multi-period difference-in-differences evaluate Green Finance Reform Innovation Pilot Zones (GFRIPZ) IWP its mechanism channels. The findings show that: (1) GFRIPZ significantly suppresses IWP. conclusion still holds after multiple robustness checks. (2) Mechanism analyses reveal that can reduce by promoting technological innovation. Additionally, this strengthened as market-oriented reforms deepen. (3) Heterogeneity indicate that, compared central-western non-resource-based regions, non-provincial-border cities, stronger eastern resource-based regions provincial-border cities. provides new evidence understand finance.

Язык: Английский

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Impact of carbon emission trading on urban green innovation: empirical evidence from China’s carbon emission trading pilot policy

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12

Опубликована: Сен. 10, 2024

In the face of global climate change challenges, China’s implementation carbon emission trading (CET) pilot policy has provided new empirical research opportunities. Based on a dataset covering 281 Chinese cities from 2005 to 2021, this paper employs econometric models conduct an in-depth analysis policy’s impact urban green innovation (UGI). The findings indicate that CET significantly promoted activities in affected cities, with positive effects observed both directly and indirectly non-pilot through spatial spillover effects. addition, been found encourage technological investment enhance public environmental awareness (PEA), further advancing innovation. also unveils comprehensive effects, indicating Big Data Comprehensive Test Zone New Energy Demonstration City work synergistically These provide valuable experiences insights for designing tools at national level, promoting development, constructing response strategies.

Язык: Английский

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Frequency of internet use, economic income, and health of the population—comparative analysis of urban and rural areas based on Chinese General Social Survey

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12

Опубликована: Окт. 17, 2024

People’s health is one of the important supports for China’s economic development. This study uses 2021 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data to empirically test impact residents’ Internet use frequency and income on level, analyzes differences between urban rural areas. The empirical results show that, firstly, can promote level residents, promotion effect residents higher than that residents; Secondly, has a positive promoting entire sample but in samples, regression not significant. Third, heterogeneity region, gender age, it found also urban–rural differences. Based this, this suggests government continue make efforts further by improving penetration rate, strengthening skills, carrying out professional skills training high-quality development content.

Язык: Английский

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Research on the path of green technology innovation driven by the Environmental Protection Tax Law: Based on data of heavy polluting enterprises

PLoS ONE, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 19(7), С. e0308215 - e0308215

Опубликована: Июль 30, 2024

Environmental Protection Tax Law (EPTL) is a compulsory environmental regulation measure adopted by China to deal with problems. However, the advancement of implementation, EPTL produces dissimilation effect and damages realization Porter hypothesis effect. The study examines green technology innovation regulated using sample data from heavy pollution firms in China. According empirical test results: (1) coordination between levies administrations, differential tax rate setting, information sharing, definition scope levy administration, declaration counseling, level verification produce effect; (2) most significant medium-sized enterprises foreign-funded enterprises. By constructing research model group effect, this analyzes application China’s social economic background, thus providing reference for developing economy.

Язык: Английский

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