Going carbon-neutral in China: Does the low-carbon city pilot policy improve carbon emission efficiency?

H Zhang, C Feng, X Zhou - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2022 - Elsevier
To combat climate change and move towards carbon neutrality, China has implemented the
low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy since 2010, with carrying out three batches of pilot cities …

China's efforts towards carbon neutrality: does energy-saving and emission-reduction policy mitigate carbon emissions?

T Xu, C Kang, H Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
To achieve green and low-carbon development, the Chinese government has selected pilot
cities to implement the energy-saving and emission-reduction (ESER) policy in three …

Can low-carbon city pilot policies significantly improve carbon emission efficiency? Empirical evidence from China

S Wen, Z Jia, X Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
This study estimates the effect of low-carbon city (LCC) pilot policies on carbon emission
efficiency (CO 2 E) measured by Slacks-based measure (SBM) on panel data of 208 cities …

Does low-carbon pilot city program reduce carbon intensity? Evidence from Chinese cities

T Feng, Z Lin, H Du, Y Qiu, J Zuo - Research in International Business and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Low-carbon pilot city (LCPC) programs have been implemented in China to facilitate low
carbon production and consumption for combating climate change. The two rounds of low …

Heterogeneous effects of China's low-carbon city pilots policy

J Lyu, T Liu, B Cai, Y Qi, X Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Global south countries, including China, have faced a challenging dilemma of reducing
carbon emissions while maintaining rapid economic growth. The low-carbon city pilots …

Developing low-carbon cities through pilots

Y Wang, Q Song, J He, Y Qi - Climate Policy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Nationwide rapid urbanization has been a key driver of economic growth, energy
consumption, and carbon emission in China. To avoid the high energy consumption and …

Research on energy conservation and carbon emission reduction effects and mechanism: Quasi-experimental evidence from China

S Wen, H Liu - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to identify three batches of low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy on energy
conservation and carbon emission reduction. Specifically, we first innovatively develop a …

“Bottom-up” abatement on climate from the “top-down” design: lessons learned from China's low-carbon city pilot policy

Q Wu, Z Sun, L Jiang, L Jiang - Empirical Economics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, representatives from 198 countries convened for the
27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …

Can low-carbon city construction reduce carbon intensity? Empirical evidence from low-carbon city pilot policy in China

S Zeng, G Jin, K Tan, X Liu - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) is an innovative initiative for promoting low-carbon
transformation and green development in China, which is of great practical significance for …

How effective has the low-carbon city pilot policy been as an environmental intervention in curbing pollution? Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises

S Yang, A Jahanger, MR Hossain - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
In response to China's burgeoning environmental pollution, since 2010, Chinese
policymakers have implemented a low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) and expanded the …