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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Econ.
Sec. Energy Economics
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frevc.2024.1506012
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Carbon Reduction and Pollution Control Policies Management: Theoretical, Application, and Future Impacts View all 19 articles

The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on Urban Total Factor Carbon Emission Performance :Evidence from Enterprise Production and Household Consumption in China

Provisionally accepted
Zhongxin Yang Zhongxin Yang 1,2Shanshan HUANG Shanshan HUANG 3*Jing Ma Jing Ma 3Ceyuan Song Ceyuan Song 1Shujing Xu Shujing Xu 1
  • 1 China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
  • 2 Hubei Regional Innovation Capacity Monitoring and Analysis Soft Science Research Base,, Hubei, China
  • 3 Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China

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    Digital infrastructure, serving as the fundamental carrier of data elements, allows China to balance economic growth with reduced carbon intensity, opening new pathways for sustainable economic development globally. This study employs a Difference-in-Differences (DID) approach to investigate the impact of digital infrastructure on urban total factor carbon emission performance, and extend the research perspective to a micro level，focusing on mechanisms involving household consumption and enterprise production . The results demonstrate that (1) Digital infrastructure can enhances urban carbon performance by promoting green product innovation of enterprises and changing consumers' consumption patterns (2) Heterogeneity analysis indicates that cities with higher income and educational levels among residents experience a more significant improvement in carbon performance, and digital infrastructure's impact varies when combined with enterprise characteristics and technological capabilities, with non-state-owned enterprises and high-tech enterprises having relatively higher carbon-saving effects. The research results of this paper emphasize role of microsubjects in the process of digital infrastructure affecting total-factor carbon emission performance, which has important theoretical and practical significance for guiding future economic policies and strategies.

    Keywords: Digital infrastructure, Total factor carbon emission performance, Green consumption, Green product innovation, Green market

    Received: 04 Oct 2024; Accepted: 31 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Yang, HUANG, Ma, Song and Xu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Shanshan HUANG, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China

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