Public environmental supervision, environmental non-governmental organizations, and industrial green and low-carbon transformation

The existing literature on China’s industrial green and low-carbon transformation primarily concerns the government’s top-down formal environmental regulation. A few studies have systematically investigated the role of informal environmental regulation represented by public environmental supervision...

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Published inFrontiers in environmental science Vol. 10
Main Authors Zhang, Haitao, Dong, Jingrong, Zhang, Wenqing, Luo, Jiahui
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 04.01.2023
Subjects
China’s industry
ENGOs
green and low-carbon transformation
green total factor productivity
public environmental supervision
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Summary:The existing literature on China’s industrial green and low-carbon transformation primarily concerns the government’s top-down formal environmental regulation. A few studies have systematically investigated the role of informal environmental regulation represented by public environmental supervision and environmental non-governmental organizations The impact of public environmental supervision and ENGOs on industrial green and low-carbon transformation and its mechanism is empirically examined in this paper using a system GMM model and provincial panel data from 2005 to 2018. According to the findings, both Public environmental supervision and ENGOs can achieve green and low-carbon industrial transformation by promoting green technology progress; Public environmental supervision cannot collaborate with ENGOs to promote green and low-carbon industrial transformation based on national data. Further analysis indicates that the effect of public environmental supervision and ENGOs on industrial green and low-carbon transformation has significant regional heterogeneity. Public environmental supervision has a positive impact on industrial green and low-carbon transformation in the eastern and central regions. It has a negative impact on industrial green and low-carbon transformation in the western region. ENGOs promote green and low-carbon industrial transformation in the eastern and western regions. Only the eastern region has a synergistic effect on industrial greening and low-carbon transformation.
ISSN:2296-665X
2296-665X
DOI:10.3389/fenvs.2022.1074267