Effects of China's pilot low-carbon city policy on carbon emission reduction: A quasi-natural experiment based on satellite data

• Published in: Technological forecasting & social change Vol. 175; p. 121422
• Main Authors: Huo, Weidong, Qi, Jie, Yang, Tong, Liu, Jialu, Liu, Miaomiao, Zhou, Ziqi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.02.2022; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Carbon; Carbon emissions; Cities; Clean technology; Climate change; Climate change mitigation; Cost benefit analysis; Differences-in-differences; Economic development; Economics; Emission analysis; Emissions; Emissions control; Empirical analysis; GDP; Global climate; Greenhouse gases; Gross Domestic Product; Low-carbon cities; Productivity; R&D; Research & development; Satellite data; Technological change; China; Q54; Satellite data; Q58; Differences-in-differences; Low-carbon cities; Q51; O53; Carbon emissions

•Fresh emission data calculated by satellite to probe CO2 reduction in China 2005–2017.•Effects of low-carbon-city pilot implementation probed using a DID method.•Emission reduction in resource-based cities exceed that in non-resource-based ones.•The low-carbon-city policy caused a GDP loss of 1.19...