[Impact of Energy Structure Transition on the Coupling and Coordinated Development of Economy and Carbon Emission Reduction under the "Dual Carbon" Context].

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🔬研究者:Offers a panel data approach to analyze energy transition impacts; useful for comparative studies or mechanism design.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights the role of energy restructuring and industrial upgrading in achieving dual carbon goals, with implications for regional policy design.

Optimizing and adjusting the energy structure is not only an important task for China's energy development but also a key support for achieving the 'double carbon' goal and an important tool for accelerating the overall green transformation of the economy and society. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 1990 to 2021, this study explores the impact of energy restructuring on the coupled and coordinated development of the economy and carbon emission reduction by using the fixed-effects model and the instrumental variables method. The results of the study show that: ① The degree of economic and carbon emission reduction coupling and coordination in the study period as a whole showed an upward trend, but there were obvious characteristics of inter-regional and provincial differentiation. ② The transformation of the energy structure significantly promoted the coupling and coordinated development of the economy and carbon emission reduction, and this conclusion remained valid after a series of robustness tests. ③ Heterogeneity analysis showed that since China first put forward the "carbon emission reduction" goal, the positive effect of energy structure transformation has been on the rise. Meanwhile, in eastern regions as well as regions with high human capital and high government governance level, the energy structure transformation played a more significant role in promoting the coupled and coordinated development of economy and carbon emission reduction. ④ Mechanism analysis showed that the energy structure transformation could promote the upgrading of the industrial structure and then enhance the level of the coupled and coordinated development of the economy and carbon emission reduction. Accordingly, it is necessary to promote the process of energy structure transformation according to the time and place, to improve the level of human capital and government governance, and to improve the transmission mechanism of industrial structure upgrading.

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