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  • Environmental Science
  • Economics
  • Public Policy

Background:

  • Environmental quality is influenced by institutional factors like environmental decentralization.
  • China faces challenges with rapid economic development and increasing environmental pollution.
  • Understanding the link between decentralization and carbon emissions is crucial for effective policy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of environmental decentralization on carbon emissions in China.
  • To analyze the dynamic relationship between environmental decentralization and carbon emission control.
  • To identify specific types of decentralization that affect carbon emissions.

Main Methods:

  • Reconstruction of environmental decentralization indicators based on staff numbers in environmental agencies.
  • Utilizing spatial panel and dynamic threshold models for analysis.
  • Data collected from 30 Chinese provinces between 2005 and 2016.

Main Results:

  • A significant positive spatial correlation in regional carbon emissions across China was observed.
  • Environmental decentralization was found to have a positive impact on carbon emissions.
  • Environmental administrative and monitoring decentralization showed a positive threshold effect, while supervision decentralization had a negative effect.

Conclusions:

  • China's current environmental decentralization system may impede carbon emission control.
  • Reducing local government administrative and monitoring powers is suggested.
  • Developing a joint prevention and control mechanism is essential for reducing carbon emissions.