China’s domestic industry redistribution facilitates carbon emissions mitigation

ABSTRACT: Summary Industry redistribution is a common economic phenomenon that involves a dynamic configuration of the production location across a region, country, or the world. However, measurements of the associated pollutant emission effects have not been well conducted at the domestically regional level. Here, we calculate the CO2 emission changes induced by China’s domestic inter-provincial industry redistribution during 2002–2017 using a counterfactual approach in the multi-regional input-output framework. We find that China’s domestic industry redistribution decreased CO2 emissions during 2002–2017 and has considerable potential to continuously mitigate CO2 emissions in the future. We emphasize that the pollution haven effect may accompany the process of industry redistribution but can be we

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10212974 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature