Have China's pilot emissions trading schemes promoted carbon emission reductions?- the evidence from industrial sub-sectors at the provincial level

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作者
Zhang, Haijun [1 ,2 ]
Duan, Maosheng [1 ,2 ]
Deng, Zhe [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Tsinghua Univ, Inst Energy Environm & Econ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[2] Tsinghua Univ, China Carbon Market Res Ctr, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Emissions trading scheme; China; Causal impact; Carbon emission reduction; CAP-AND-TRADE; CO2; EMISSIONS; POWER INDUSTRY; CLIMATE POLICY; IMPACT; DECOMPOSITION; MARKET; ETS; COORDINATION; INNOVATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.247
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Scholars and policy makers put great emphasis on analyzing the mitigation effect of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), while empirical researches on the mitigation effects of China's pilot ETSs are both thin and with significant limitations. This paper tries to analyze this issue from the perspective of industrial subsectors at the provincial level. We first calculate the carbon emissions of 37 individual industrial subsectors in each of China's 26 provinces from 2005 to 2015, covering both direct and indirect emissions. Cautiously identifying the industrial sub-sectors covered by China's pilot ETSs, we explore the causal impact of China's pilot ETSs on reducing carbon emissions at the initial stage (2013-2015) and analyze the paths of achieved emission reductions, applying a difference-in-difference (DID) model and a combination of DID estimator and propensity score matching technique. Our results yield robust evidence that China's pilot ETSs have significantly promoted carbon emission reductions of the covered industrial sub-sectors, and this impact has presented an overall enhanced trend according to year-by-year analysis. The results also show that the pilot ETSs have failed to enable covered industrial subsectors to effectively cut carbon intensity and the impact on carbon intensity is not obvious in any of the first three years, and the carbon emission reductions have mainly been achieved through the decreased outputs of industrial sub-sectors. China's policy makers should tighten the free allowance allocation approaches in order to facilitate low-carbon technology innovations and reduce carbon intensity of industrial sectors. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:912 / 924
页数:13
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