National Natural Science Foundation of China [71974054]; Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [20231110017]; Post-graduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province [CX20230384]
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经济与工商管理学院
摘要：
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and climate change risk have become constraints on global economic sustainable development. Environmental regulation (ER) is a key method for achieving synergy in CO2 and pollution reduction in China. This paper is the first study to explore the effects of ER on CO2 emissions by exploiting the National Environmental Protection 11th Five-Year Plan (NEP11-FYP). The implementation of the NEP11-FYP significantly decreases CO2 emissions by 19.73% in key environmental cities relative to other cities. Heterogeneity analyses suggest that this negative impact is larger in...
