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Title	Effect Of Smart City Construction On An Urban Transition To A Low-Carbon Economy: Evidence From China
ID_Doc	22018
Authors	Zhuang Z.; Li S.; Li J.
Year	2024
Published	Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, 42
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-34833-2
Abstract	China is currently in a new era of an urban transition to a low-carbon economy and digital economic development. Smart cities, as an advanced form of information-based urban development, may be the key to the urban transition to low-carbon emissions. This paper examined the effect of smart city construction (SCC) on urban low-carbon transitions and its transmission mechanisms in China from the dual perspectives of reducing urban total carbon emissions (TCE) and improving urban total-factor carbon emission efficiency (TFCEE). Utilizing a multi-period difference in differences (DID) method, this study was conducted based on panel data of 245 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2003 to 2021. The results demonstrated that SCC both reduced TCE and enhanced TFCEE. The effects of SCC were stronger in cities with more stringent environmental regulations. SCC achieved the dual effect of reducing TCE and enhancing urban TFCEE by promoting green technological progress and a low-carbon transformation of city residents’ lifestyles. Moreover, optimization of the industrial structure was also a transmission mechanism for SCC to improve TFCEE. These conclusions provide an empirical basis for the SCC to empower low-carbon transitions of cities and help countries in different regions to transform the extensive urban development mode and promote urban low-carbon economic development. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024.
Author Keywords	Low-carbon economy; Multi-period difference in differences approach; Smart city construction; Transmission mechanism; Urban total carbon emissions; Urban total-factor carbon emission efficiency; Urban transition

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