Journal
AGRICULTURE-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture12030313
Keywords
green finance; chemical fertilizer use; carbon emissions; agricultural production; carbon neutrality
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- National Social Science Fund of China [20CMZ037, 21BGL022]
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This study examines the impact of green finance on fertilizer use and agricultural carbon emissions in China. The results show that green finance can significantly reduce agricultural carbon emissions and there is a causal relationship between agricultural carbon emissions, fertilizer use, and green finance. These findings provide important insights for policy-making on carbon emission reduction.
This study aimed to understand green finance's impact on fertilizer use and agricultural carbon emissions. We selected the macro panel data of 30 provinces (cities) in China from 2000 to 2019. The main research methods are standardized test framework (cross-sectional dependence, unit root and cointegration test), the latest causal test, impulse response, and variance decomposition analysis. Examined the long-term equilibrium relationship between green finance, fertilizer use, and agricultural carbon emissions. The results show: fertilizer consumption and agricultural carbon emissions have a positive correlation. However, green finance can significantly reduce agricultural carbon emissions. The causal test confirmed the bidirectional causal relationship between agricultural carbon emissions and fertilizer use. At the same time, verified one-way causality from green finance to both of them. Interpret the results of impulse response and variance decomposition analysis: among the changes in agricultural carbon emissions, chemical fertilizers contributed 2.45%, green finance contributed 4.34%. In addition, the contribution rate of green finance to chemical fertilizer changes reached 11.37%. Green finance will make a huge contribution to reducing fertilizer use and agricultural carbon emissions within a decade. The research conclusions provide an important scientific basis for China's provinces (cities) to formulate carbon emission reduction policies. China has initially formed a policy system and market environment to support the development of green finance, in 2020, the dual carbon goal was formally proposed. In 2021, the national 14th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 Vision Goals emphasized the importance of green finance. It plays an important supporting role in carbon emission reduction goals, and green finance has become an important pillar of national strategic goals.
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