Abstract
Based on the panel data of 283 cities in China from 2009 to 2018, this paper analyzes the effect of urban green scientific and technological innovation enhancement on hazardous air pollutants using the GS2SLS method, which simultaneously controls for model endogeneity and spatial spillover effects and reveals the transmission mechanism of urban green scientific and technological innovation level. It was found that (1) There is a significant spatial spillover effect of hazardous air pollutants between regions, both in China as a whole and in the eastern, central, and western parts of the country, and the spatial spillover effect of hazardous air pollutants is significantly greater in the eastern and central parts of China than in the western parts. (2) Green technological innovation has a significant inhibitory effect on hazardous air pollutants in cities in eastern and central China. An extended study found that the improvement in green technology levels in innovative cities has a better effect on controlling hazardous air pollutants than in non-innovative cities. (3) The energy- saving and green economy effects have a mediating influence on the effect of green technological innovation on hazardous air pollutants in cities, and the simultaneous occurrence of these two effects in green technological innovation serves to enhance the transmission of hazardous air pollutants in order to facilitate the long-term management of haze.
Highlights
Using panel data of 283 prefecture-level cities in China from 2009 to 2018, this paper systematically examined the relationship between green technological innovation and hazardous air pollutants by employing a spatial econometric model based on GS2SLS
This paper explored the differences in the impact of green scientific and technological innovation on hazardous air pollutants at different stages of economic development and its transmission mechanism
The results show that hazardous air pollutants have significant spatial spillover effects, i.e., hazardous air pollutants in the region affect hazardous air pollutants in surrounding areas
Summary
The world has been experiencing rapid economic growth accompanied by global warming, rising sea levels, and increasing environmental pollution. In China, along with rapid urbanization, the massive burning of fossil energy, rapid economic growth, and hazardous air pollutants, of which PM is an integral component, have frequently been occurring, and the scope of pollution has been expanding and deepening. This has been seriously threatening the daily lives and health of most urban residents [4,5,6]. The Chinese government has implemented a series of measures to combat hazardous air pollutants to win the “Blue Sky Defense War”
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