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Can new energy demonstration city policy reduce carbon emissions? A quasi-natural experiment from China

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Against achieving carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 context in China, the new energy demonstration city policy (NEDCP) has a crucial function to perform in promoting resource utilization efficiency, building the green development policy system, and facilitating carbon emission reduction. However, existing research has rarely investigated the contribution of NEDCP on carbon reduction. To investigate the policy effect of NEDCP, the differences-in-differences (DID) model is introduced to quantify the influence of NEDCP on carbon reduction, taking a statistical sample of 285 Chinese cities over the period 2005–2017 on the basis of exploring the intrinsic mechanism of NEDCP on carbon emissions. The statistical results reveal that NEDCP significantly inhibits carbon emissions. NEDCP’s dampening impact on carbon reduction is more pronounced in the eastern area but not in other areas. City size and resource endowment heterogeneity results suggest that NEDCP significantly inhibits the output of carbon emissions in non-resource-based and large cities but insignificantly in resource-based and small- and medium-sized cities. Finally, we conclude that policy-makers should not only broaden the scope of NEDCP implementation continuously but also design relevant policy combination tools following the basic characteristics of each city to provide institutional guarantees for achieving carbon emission reduction.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71463057), the Special Research Project on Science and Technology Innovation Strategy of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2021B04001-4), The Graduate Research and Innovation Project of Xinjiang University (XJ2021G014, XJ2021G013, XJ2020G020, and XJ2022G014), and a special project of the School of Business and Economics, Shanghai Business School “Research on the Impact of Digital Economy on High-Quality Economic Development” (SWJJ-GYZX-2021–06), and Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of Universities in the Autonomous Region: Research on the Green Development of South Xinjiang's Economy in the Context of “Double Carbon” (JDZD202205). The usual disclaimer applies.

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  3. Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, 200235, China

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  4. Center for Innovation Management Research of Xinjiang, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830047, China

    Lu Liu, Yuxin Meng, Xiaodong Yang, Wenfeng Ge, Yang Xu & Qiying Ran

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Liu, L., Meng, Y., Razzaq, A. et al. Can new energy demonstration city policy reduce carbon emissions? A quasi-natural experiment from China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 51861–51874 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25971-0

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