期刊论文

Jiayang Kong

英文

Atmosphere (대기)

1598-3560

2022

13

8

1269-

10.3390/atmos13081269

We acknowledge funding from the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 18ZDA051), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 72171100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 72073049), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 71703052), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant no. 2020CFB853). This paper does not reflect an official statement or opinion from these organizations.

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Here, we assessed the impact of low-carbon city pilot projects on carbon emissions across China through application of a series of econometric techniques to data on these three waves of low-carbon city construction. Our baseline results are obtained from a difference-in-differences estimator, comparing cities with and without introducing low-carbon city pilot projects, and show that low-carbon city pilot projects reduce carbon emissions by about 2 percentage points. We found a similar impact of low-carbon city pilot projects on carbon emissions when we controlled for the estimated propensity o...