ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1615002
Internal Mechanism and Enhancement Strategy of Chemical Industry Carbon Emission Reduction Promoted by the Development of Digital Economy
Provisionally accepted
- 1Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- 2Nottingham University Business School China, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
- 3State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, Zhoushn, China
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Carbon emissions of chemical industry is measured by decoupling model comply with quadratic model and cubic model. Then impact mechanism of carbon emissions in industrial enterprises in prefecture-level cities is analyzed based on externality theory and enterprises environmental behavior theory. Impact of digital economy's development on carbon emis-sions of industrial enterprises is conducted by baseline regression and robustness tests. The results show that: (1) digital econ-omy development can reduce carbon emission intensity; (2) The higher the level of digital economy development, the greater the degree of digitization and informatization across society, the more efficient the resource utilization by chemical enterprises, and the stronger the push towards green and low-carbon industry, all of which contribute to reducing carbon emission intensity. Therefore, chemical enterprises can further enhance the level of digital economy development to promote carbon emission reduction from increasing R&D investment, forming innovation alliances, and striving to transform into low-carbon enterprises.
Keywords: digital economy, Carbon emission reduction, Chemical Industry, Internal mechanism, Enhancement strategy
Received: 20 Apr 2025; Accepted: 19 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Gao, Ni, Zhang, Zhou, Yang and Mao. 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: Qin Zhang, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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