Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 45, Pages 64606-64629Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-15304-4
Keywords
Energy structure; Digital economy; Carbon emissions; Resource-based province
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71463057]
- Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region [2017D01C071]
- key scientific research projects of universities in Xinjiang [XJEDU2019SI003]
- Silk Road Foundation of Xinjiang University [JGSL18053]
- second phase project of the School of Economics and Management of Xinjiang University [19JGPY001]
- graduate research and innovation project of Xinjiang University [XJ2019G005, XJ2020G020]
- party central committee's Xinjiang-Governance strategy theory and practice research key project [19ZJFLZ09]
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This study empirically examines the relationship between digitalization, energy structure, and carbon emissions, finding that a coal-based energy structure has a significant impact on carbon emissions, with the digital economy playing a moderating role. The influence varies in different regions.
As a new production factor, digitalization plays a vital role in society, economy, and the environment. Based on the expanded STIRPAT model, this paper empirically tests the impact of energy structure and digital economy on carbon emissions by panel data from 2011 to 2017 in 30 provinces of China. The results show that the energy structure mainly based on coal has a significant driving effect on carbon emissions. Compared with non-resource-based provinces, the increase of energy structure dominated by coal has a greater effect on carbon emission in resource-based provinces. It is worth noting that this kind of influence has a greater impact on the central region of China, followed by the western region and the eastern region. Besides, the digital economy has a significant moderating effect. With the development of digital economy, the impact of coal-based energy structure on carbon emissions is gradually decreasing. This effect is more significant in non-resource-based provinces and eastern China, but not significant in resource-based cities and central and western China.
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