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Title	Transformation power or development pressure: economic growth targets and urban carbon productivity
ID_Doc	33750
Authors	Chen, LT; Zheng, Y; Han, XF; Liu, J
Title	Transformation power or development pressure: economic growth targets and urban carbon productivity
Year	2024
Published	Chinese Journal Of Population Resources And Environment, 22.0, 2
Abstract	Maintaining moderate economic growth targets (EGTs) is the key for local governments to effectively imple- ment the "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" goals under the refreshed development pattern. Utilizing panel data of 276 prefecture-level cities in mainland China from 2010 to 2020, and employing methods such as in- termediary and threshold models, this study empirically analyzes the internal mechanism of EGT 's impact on urban carbon productivity (UCP). Our findings demonstrate that: The overall EGT during the analyzed pe- riod is not conducive to improving UCP. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests. This effect is more pronounced in the central region and resource-based cities than in the east-west region and nonresource-based cities. EGT not only directly suppresses UCP but also exerts indirect negative impacts on UCP from three aspects: delaying the digital economy (DE), constraining financial expansion (FE), and hinder- ing green technology innovation (GTI). This negative indirect effect is similar to or even surpasses the direct effect, suggesting that the internal relationship between EGT and "dual-carbon" goals should be re-evaluated from a new compound perspective. EGT not only has a simple linear impact on UCP but also significantly exhibits a dynamic evolution pattern in inverted "U" shape. That is, as EGT continuously upgrades, a nonlin- ear impact on UCP emerges in the form of "promoting first, suppressing later". This indicates that surpassing the "degree" limit for EGT will be detrimental to the improvement of UCP. This study broadens the scope of carbon productivity analysis by introducing a new perspective centered on EGT. The insights gleaned from this research offer valuable guidance for local governments to effectively manage economic growth expecta- tions and promote the synchronized achievement of dual-carbon objectives.
PDF	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjpre.2024.06.009

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