Relationships between urbanization and CO2 emissions in China: An empirical analysis of population migration.

ABSTRACT: China's announcement of its goal of carbon neutrality has increased the practical significance of research on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that result from urbanization. With a comprehensive consideration of population migration in China, this study examines the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions based on provincial panel data from 2000 to 2012. Two indicators (resident population and household registration population) are used to measure urbanization rate. The results reveal that the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in China is closely correlated with the structure of urban resident population and interregional population migration. The estimation results are still robust by using generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator and two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator. The

SUBMITTER: Zhang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8372907 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature