College of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China.
Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Mar 25;710:136140. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136140. Epub 2019 Dec 18.
The respective interests of local government and enterprises have led to a tug of war that may be affecting the level of carbon dioxide emission reduction intensity in China. In order to investigate the conflicts involved, we build a model to measure the influence of local government and enterprises on actual carbon dioxide emissions reduction levels based on a two-tier stochastic frontier analysis model. This can help identify the attitudes and practical action of Chinese local governments and enterprises towards carbon dioxide emission reduction, and find out the important factors that influence their attitudes towards carbon dioxide emission reduction. The results show that an overwhelming majority of local governments have a greater influence on carbon dioxide emission intensity reduction than enterprises do, with the reduction being driven by the local government, and enterprises generally facing the resulting pressure. In this context, enhancing the participation of enterprises in carbon dioxide emission intensity reduction has become the key to achieving China's reduction targets.
地方政府和企业的各自利益导致了一场拉锯战，可能影响了中国二氧化碳减排强度的水平。为了研究其中的冲突，我们构建了一个模型，基于双层随机前沿分析模型来衡量地方政府和企业对实际二氧化碳减排水平的影响。这有助于确定中国地方政府和企业对二氧化碳减排的态度和实际行动，并找出影响其二氧化碳减排态度的重要因素。结果表明，绝大多数地方政府对二氧化碳排放强度减排的影响大于企业，减排是由地方政府推动的，而企业通常面临由此产生的压力。在这种情况下，增强企业参与二氧化碳排放强度减排已成为实现中国减排目标的关键。
