Abstract
“Porter Hypothesis” believes that moderate environmental regulation can promote the growth of green technology innovation. Voluntary environmental agreements are a typical type of environmental regulation and theoretically promote green technology innovation. In 1964, Japan was the first country in the world to implement a voluntary environmental agreement, with good results. Subsequently, European Union countries began to implement the “fifth Environmental Action Plan” on 1 January 1993, which effectively combined voluntary environmental agreements with corporate self-regulation. The prior empirical work assists the idea that environmental regulation has diverse impacts on the environment. However, China’s voluntary environmental agreements have a short implementation time and lack of experience and need to be further explored in terms of policy proposal and technology implementation. The existing literature is based on a sample of units at the provincial level or national level are studied, utilizing multiple regression analysis methods, this study in China prefecture-level administrative units as investigation object, and choose the government environmental protection education, the government agreement propaganda, enterprise ecological ethics, information disclosure, market efficiency, and information technology support six elements as the key independent variables. This paper empirically examines the promotion effect of the voluntary environmental agreement on green technology innovation, finds the shortcomings of China’s voluntary environmental agreement regulation, and puts forward specific improvement strategies to promote the growth of green technology innovation more effectively. It is found that government environmental protection education, enterprise ecological ethics construction, market effectiveness, and information technology support have obvious promoting effects on green product innovation, green process innovation, and end management innovation. Government agreement publicity has no promotion function for green product innovation, green process innovation, and terminal governance innovation. The disclosure of protocol information has a promotion effect on green product innovation, but it lacks the promotion function on green process innovation, and end management innovation. The research believes that the deepening of the implementation of voluntary environmental agreements in China should give full play to the leading role of the government, implement progressive policies, deepen the internal coordination of environmental regulations, give play to the supervision role of the public and the media, learn from the experience of western countries, and promote green credit. The finding of the study opens up new insight for appropriate policymaking.
Highlights
With the rapid development of the world industrial economy, the deepening of economic globalization, population explosion, and the vulgar production way of life leads to the global environment increasingly serious, the global ecological destruction and environmental pollution, energy consumption, and shortage of resources such as the world’s climate problems emerge in endlessly, climate change becomes a new focus in the world, and actively respond to the environmental problem has become a global consensus
In 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted at the Paris Climate Change Conference, and in 2016, the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in New York
This study aims to thoroughly analyze the environmental regulation from the perspective of the green technology innovation process for manufacturing enterprise green technology innovation power, the influence of the behavior, efficiency, and the diffusion mechanism
Summary
With the rapid development of the world industrial economy, the deepening of economic globalization, population explosion, and the vulgar production way of life leads to the global environment increasingly serious, the global ecological destruction and environmental pollution, energy consumption, and shortage of resources such as the world’s climate problems emerge in endlessly, climate change becomes a new focus in the world, and actively respond to the environmental problem has become a global consensus. For our country’s manufacturing industry in the environment and resources under the double constraints to explore green sustainable development model to provide targeted countermeasures and operationality of economy and environment, It provides decision-making support and effective reference for relevant national departments to formulate relevant policies and contributes to the further improvement of the theoretical relationship between environmental regulation and green technology innovation. If the voluntary environmental agreements at the prefecture-level are effectively implemented, many problems encountered in the implementation of the voluntary environmental agreements in China will be solved, and the promotion of green technology innovation will rise to a higher level. Under the Porter Hypothesis, the study on the mechanism and effect of voluntary environmental agreements at the municipal level on green technology innovation in China is of real value and significance. This paper analyzes the green technology innovation motivation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises from two aspects of government and enterprise and expounds on the influence of environmental regulation on green technology innovation motivation, internal motivation, and external incentive mechanism
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