School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum Beijing, Beijing 102249, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 5;18(5):2634. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052634.
Given the growing awareness of sustainable development, the environmental protection industry has attracted much attention. Green finance has developed rapidly in policymaking and practices. This study provides a framework for evaluating green finance via linkage analysis based on input-output theory. Measurements on industrial linkages are calculated in China in two provinces from 2002 to 2018, which study the relationship between finance and environmental protection sectors. The results show that the environmental protection sector (EPS) in China has gradually developed from a sector with weak backward and strong forward linkages to a sector with strong backward and weak forward linkages from 2002 to 2015; however, in 2017 and 2018, the EPS returned to a sector with weak backward and strong forward linkages. At the provincial level, the EPS used to be a key sector with strong backward and forward linkages. The connection between the finance sector and the EPS rose first, then declined in the country and the Zhejiang province; Guangdong had a similar evolution in the former period, but it had a rising trend in the latest year. The findings provide insights for further promoting the support from the finance sector to the environmental protection activities.
鉴于可持续发展意识的不断增强，环境保护行业引起了广泛关注。绿色金融在政策制定和实践中迅速发展。本研究基于投入产出理论，通过关联分析为绿色金融评估提供了一个框架。本文以中国两个省份为例，计算了 2002 年至 2018 年产业关联度的衡量指标，研究了金融与环保部门之间的关系。结果表明，中国的环保部门（EPS）已从 2002 年至 2015 年期间具有较弱后向和较强前向联系的部门逐渐发展成为具有较强后向和较弱前向联系的部门；然而，在 2017 年和 2018 年，EPS 又回到了具有较弱后向和较强前向联系的部门。在省级层面，EPS 曾经是一个具有较强后向和前向联系的关键部门。金融部门与 EPS 之间的联系在全国和浙江省呈先升后降的趋势；广东省在前一阶段也有类似的演变，但在最新一年呈上升趋势。这些发现为进一步推动金融部门对环保活动的支持提供了参考。
