How can industrial structure affect carbon emissions: Facilitating or inhibiting? Research based on spatial panel econometric models: Direct effects and spatial spillover

Abstract

The study investigates China's provincial carbon emissions if there is spatial dependence by using spatial panel econometric models and analyzed the functional mechanism industrial restructuring in the growth of carbon emissions. The empirical results show that Chinese provincial carbon emissions has dependencies, showing local relevant spatial agglomeration characteristics in space, near the provincial spatial spillover effects of carbon emissions significantly; adjustment of industrial structure on carbon emissions elasticity coefficient is significantly positive, provincial economic growth to adjacent provincial carbon emissions have significantly reduced the effect of provincial industrial structure adjacent provincial carbon emissions growth with the promotion of the role; technological advances inhibition of carbon emissions cannot be ignored. Government departments in the development of relevant industry development plan should aim to strengthen cooperation and exchanges in neighboring regions, and improve the industrial structure adjustment policies taking into account the spatial effects of effector mechanisms