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Industrial Coagglomeration, Green Innovation, and Manufacturing Carbon Emissions: Coagglomeration's Dynamic Evolution
Lu Zhang1,2,3, Renyan Mu1,3, Nigatu Mengesha Fentaw1
1School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
|November 11, 2022
Summary
China
Area of Science:
- Environmental Science
- Economics
- Industrial Ecology
Background:
- China's low-carbon development and carbon neutrality goals are contingent on reducing manufacturing carbon emissions.
- Industrial coagglomeration is a key factor influencing these emissions.
- Understanding the dynamic evolution of coagglomeration is crucial for effective policy-making.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between industrial coagglomeration, green innovation, and manufacturing carbon emissions in China.
- To explore the direct and indirect mechanisms linking these factors.
- To identify threshold effects of industrial coagglomeration on carbon emissions.
Main Methods:
- Utilized panel data from 30 Chinese provinces (2010-2019).
- Employed panel-threshold-STIRPAT and mediation-STIRPAT models.
- Analyzed the nonlinear impacts and mediating role of green innovation.
Main Results:
- Industrial coagglomeration has a nonlinear impact on manufacturing carbon emissions, with significant threshold effects.
- Increased industrial coagglomeration generally reduces emissions, but the effect diminishes with deepening levels and becomes insignificant beyond a certain threshold.
- Green innovation acts as a partial intermediary at lower coagglomeration levels and a complete intermediary at higher levels.
Conclusions:
- Optimizing industrial coagglomeration is vital for reducing manufacturing carbon emissions.
- Enhancing the level and efficiency of green innovation is critical for achieving carbon reduction goals.
- Policy interventions should consider the threshold effects and the mediating role of green innovation.
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