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Emission reduction effect of digital finance: evidence from China

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
卷 30, 期 22, 页码 62032-62050

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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26424-4

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Digital finance; Carbon emission reduction; Ecological effect; Green technology innovation; Carbon peaking; Carbon neutral

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This paper investigates the relationship between digital finance and carbon emissions and explores the ecological effects of digital finance. Based on a panel data of 256 cities in China from 2011 to 2018, it finds that digital finance significantly suppresses the intensity of regional carbon emissions, and the breadth of coverage, depth of use, and degree of digital support of digital finance together curb regional carbon emissions, with the strongest suppressive effect being the breadth of coverage. Furthermore, the study reveals the potential mechanism of digital finance to curb urban carbon emissions through promoting industrial advancement, green technology innovation, and optimizing labor resource allocation. The research has implications for developing a regional green development system supported by digital finance.
This paper investigates the relationship between digital finance and carbon emissions and explores the ecological effects of digital finance. Based on a panel data of 256 cities in China from 2011 to 2018, this paper investigates the impact of digital finance on carbon emissions and its intrinsic mechanisms. First, digital finance significantly suppresses the intensity of regional carbon emission, and the breadth of coverage, depth of use, and degree of digital support of digital finance together curb regional carbon emissions, with the strongest suppressive effect being the breadth of coverage. In addition, the regression results remain significant after a series of robustness tests. Second, it reveals the potential mechanism of digital finance to curb urban carbon emissions. These mechanisms include the three channels: promoting industrial advancement, green technology innovation, and optimizing labor resource allocation. Third, the heterogeneity test finds that the energy saving and emission reduction effects of digital finance are significantly stronger in non-low-carbon pilot cities with low urbanization rates, confirming the emission reduction utility of digital finance development. Therefore, we should take advantage of digital finance to improve the green development of financial services and adopt diverse policy measures according to local conditions to maximize the ecological effects of digital finance on energy saving and emission reduction. In the context of the development strategy of carbon peaking and carbon neutral, this study has some implications for management in developing a regional green development system supported by digital finance.

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