Leeds Trinity University, UK; Misurata University, Libya.
Saida University, Algeria.
J Environ Manage. 2020 Jun 15;264:110474. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110474. Epub 2020 Mar 30.
This study examines the provincial impact of fiscal decentralization, in the form of shifting fiscal responsibilities of expenditures and revenues and others from the central government to lower local governments, as well as rapidly rising urbanization, on energy consumption for 31 Chinese provinces subject to relevant important control variables over the period 2006 to 2015. This analysis has implications for economic growth, efficiency and equality in China. To this end, the study employs multiple panel data analyses and panel quantile regressions to analyse this impact. Our findings show that fiscal decentralization has a non-linear relationship with energy consumption, which confirms the concave behaviour of fiscal decentralization in the Chinese provinces and underscores the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in those provinces, given the control variables. Moreover, increasing Chinese urbanization leads to high demand for energy consumption. Provincial governments can support eco-innovation and eco-investment by pursuing green growth strategies such as the expansion of the service sector and the boosting of the renewable energy sector: particularly when taking into account that coal, at one end of the spectrum, generates a 20 times greater carbon impact than renewables at the other.
本研究考察了财政分权（即将支出和收入等财政责任从中央政府转移到地方政府）以及快速城市化对 2006 年至 2015 年期间中国 31 个省份能源消耗的省级影响，同时考虑了相关重要控制变量。这一分析对中国的经济增长、效率和公平具有重要意义。为此，本研究采用了多种面板数据分析和面板分位数回归来分析这种影响。我们的研究结果表明，财政分权与能源消耗之间存在非线性关系，这证实了中国省份财政分权的凹性行为，并强调了在考虑到控制变量的情况下，环境库兹涅茨曲线假说在中国省份的有效性。此外，中国城市化的提高导致了对能源消耗的高需求。省政府可以通过追求绿色增长战略，如扩大服务业和可再生能源部门，来支持生态创新和生态投资：特别是考虑到煤炭在一端产生的碳影响是可再生能源在另一端的 20 倍。
