Business School, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China.
School of Urban and Regional Sciences, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 200433, China.
Environ Res. 2024 Jul 1;252(Pt 3):119020. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119020. Epub 2024 Apr 26.
Government governance reform is not only a vital motivation for high economic quality but also an important factor in stimulating the government's environmental governance responsibility. The article empirically examines the fiscal Province-Managing-County (PMC) pilot reform on the synergic governance of haze and carbon reduction and its mechanism. The results show that the policy helps to realize the synergic governance of haze and carbon reduction, and the reform of fiscal Province-Managing-County promotes regional haze and carbon reduction mainly through structural effect, innovation effect, and fiscal expenditure responsibility effect. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the policy has an asymmetric effect on haze and carbon reduction under different administrative structures, economic structures and levels of government intervention. Further analysis shows a policy linkage effect between this policy and the Green Fiscal Policy. The policy has the situation of blood-sucking in the provincial capital city and leads to an increase in financial funds. The above results prove that the policy can help to realize haze and carbon reduction and provide practical ideas for the further expansion of the policy. At the same time, it provides the direction for the local government to realize the double-carbon goal.
政府治理改革不仅是实现高质量经济的重要动力，也是激发政府环境治理责任的重要因素。本文实证检验了雾霾与碳减排协同治理的财政省管县（PMC）试点改革及其机制。结果表明，该政策有助于实现雾霾与碳减排的协同治理，财政省管县改革主要通过结构效应、创新效应和财政支出责任效应促进区域雾霾和碳减排。异质性分析表明，在不同的行政结构、经济结构和政府干预程度下，该政策对雾霾和碳减排具有非对称效应。进一步的分析表明，该政策与绿色财政政策之间存在政策联动效应。政策存在省会吸血现象，导致财政资金增加。上述结果证明，该政策有助于实现雾霾与碳减排，并为进一步扩大政策提供了实践思路。同时，为地方政府实现双碳目标提供了方向。
