How does the belt and road initiative affect the carbon emissions of China’s cities?

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“一带一路”倡议如何影响中国城市的碳排放？

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来源：

Frontiers in Environmental Science

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来源地址：

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1066122/full

资源所属：

一带一路农业专题

类型：

学术文献

语种：

英语

原文发布日期：

2023-01-20

摘要：

There is growing concern about carbon emissions as the economy grows, which is of great importance to the implementation of the green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) development strategy. Using panel data of 282 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006–2020 and the difference-in-differences method, this paper empirically examines the effects of the BRI on carbon emissions. Both theoretical and empirical analyses indicate that the BRI can significantly reduce the carbon emission level of cities along the routes, but the impact varies in different regions and cities. The mechanism analysis shows that the BRI reduces the carbon emission level of the Belt and Road cities through the economic agglomeration effect and industrial structure effect. Therefore, China should vigorously promote green Belt and Road construction, implement a regional integration strategy, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure. These findings have a certain reference value for the follow-up implementation of the BRI.