scholarly journals The Impact of China Carbon Emission Trading System on Land Use Transition: A Macroscopic Economic Perspective

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Yingkai Tang ◽  
Yunfan Yang ◽  
He Xu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Emission Trading System ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Land Use Transition ◽  
Carbon Emission Trading ◽  
The Impact

The carbon emission trading system (CETS) is a milestone policy in the history of China’s emission trading system, which is of great significance to China’s realization of “carbon peak and carbon neutralization”. As an important component of sustainable development, LUT should be related to the CETS. However, in the literature on the CETS, little material deals with its impact on land use transition (LUT). This paper will enrich this literature. Based on 30 provincial regions in China from 2011 to 2017, using the DID and entropy methods, this study investigated the impact of CETS on the trend of LUT from three perspectives: economic effects, environmental effects and Porter effects. The conclusions are that (1) the implementation of the CETS hindered economic development, but optimized energy-use efficiency; (2) the implementation of the CETS reduced the emissions of CO2 and SO2; (3) the implementation of the CETS did not produce a Porter effect; and (4) the influence of the CETS had the characteristics of a spatial cluster. These findings offer some guidance for improving CETS policies and formulating similar environmental regulation policies.

A Theoretical Analysis of Carbon Emission Trading System in China and the Perfection of its Rules and Regulations

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4530-4535
Author(s):  
Mo Ru Liu ◽  
Hua Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Capacity Allocation ◽  
Emission Trading System ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Carbon Emissions Trading ◽  
Trading Mechanism ◽  
Carbon Emission Trading

The Carbon emission trading mechanism is an important tool to tackle climate change, promote low-carbon economic development, and facilitate ecological civilization construction. The Carbon emission trading system is set up based on the overall amount control. It controls the greenhouse gas emissions through the marketing mechanism, and reduces the cost of carbon emission control. Through theoretical analyses of the property rights of carbon emission right and the legal relationship of carbon emissions trading ,the theoretical basis for the carbon emissions trading mechanism is established. Currently, the measures to improve the carbon emissions trading mechanisms in China mainly consist of perfecting the trading platform, improving the marketing regulation system, promoting legislations of the total amount control of carbon emissions and the initial allocation of carbon emissions right so as to realize the optimal environmental capacity allocation of carbon emissions.

scholarly journals Impact of Carbon Emission Trading System Participation and Level of Internal Control on Quality of Carbon Emission Disclosures: Insights from Chinese State-Owned Electricity Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duojiao Tan ◽  
Bilal ◽  
Simon Gao ◽  
Bushra Komal
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Emission Trading System ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Carbon Emission Trading

In recent years, the quality of carbon emission disclosures has become a central area of concern for different stakeholders of companies. Specifically, stakeholders of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) want these companies to legitimize their actions regarding carbon emissions reductions reporting. The current study aims to explore the impact of carbon emission trading system participation and the level of internal control on the quality of carbon emission disclosures. Using a sample of Chinese state-owned electricity companies from 2012 to 2018 and employing the difference-in-differences (DID) method, we find a positive impact of the carbon emission trading system participation on the quality of carbon emission disclosures, which suggests that the state-owned electricity companies’ participation in the carbon emission trading system leads to the higher quality of carbon emission disclosures. Likewise, we find a positive relationship between the level of internal control and the quality of carbon emission disclosures, which suggests that the state-owned electricity companies with stronger internal control provide the higher quality of carbon emission disclosures. In addition, we find that the findings are only significant in the case of central SOEs as compared to local SOEs. Our findings contribute to the practical, policy, and research implications as the quality of carbon disclosures is the primary concern from a variety of stakeholders.

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