Wang Fei, Ye Linwei, Zeng Xiaohua, Zhang Wei
School of Economics and Trade, Guangzhou Xinhua University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
School of Economics and Trade, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
Heliyon. 2024 Feb 15;10(4):e25676. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25676. eCollection 2024 Feb 29.
According to the climate emission reduction commitment of the Paris Agreement, all countries are actively seeking a new path of energy conservation and emission reduction, and trying to "bend downward" the global greenhouse gas emission curve. For China's carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutral target before 2060, explore whether FDI can reduce China's energy consumption and carbon emissions. From the new research perspective of FDI quality, this paper explores the potential ways to improve regional energy-carbon emission performance (ECEP), and applied dynamic threshold effect and two-stage least squares for validation. The specific results are as follows: FDI quality improvement can have a significant positive impact on regional ECEP.The development level of renewable energy, the optimization of industrial structure and the enhancement of green innovation ability can positively regulate the impact of FDI on energy-carbon emission performance. At the same time, the results of the dynamic panel threshold model demonstrate that with the economic growth pressure of local governments decreases and the fiscal decentralization increases, the role of FDI quality in promoting the ECEP could be stronger. The influence of FDI quality on ECEP has regional heterogeneity, and the influence of FDI quality on ECEP is regional heterogeneous, and the influence of FDI quality on ECEP is more significant in inland and midwestern regions than in coastal and eastern regions. This study provides experience for FDI to formulate the quality assessment system and formulate foreign investment policy.
根据《巴黎协定》的气候减排承诺，各国都在积极探寻节能减排新路径，力求使全球温室气体排放曲线“向下弯曲”。针对中国2030年前碳达峰和2060年前碳中和目标，探究外商直接投资（FDI）能否降低中国能源消耗与碳排放。本文从FDI质量这一新的研究视角出发，探寻提升区域能源碳排放绩效（ECEP）的潜在途径，并运用动态门槛效应和两阶段最小二乘法进行验证。具体结果如下：FDI质量提升对区域ECEP具有显著正向影响。可再生能源发展水平、产业结构优化以及绿色创新能力增强能够正向调节FDI对能源碳排放绩效的影响。同时，动态面板门槛模型结果表明，随着地方政府经济增长压力减小以及财政分权加大，FDI质量对促进ECEP的作用可能更强。FDI质量对ECEP的影响具有区域异质性，且FDI质量对ECEP的影响在中西部内陆地区比在沿海东部地区更为显著。本研究为FDI制定质量评估体系及制定外资政策提供了经验。
