EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ON CARBON EMISSIONS BASED ON EXTENDED STIRPAT MODEL

As a global carbon emitter, China is facing increasingly serious environmental pollution problems, and achieving carbon reduction depends on the necessary environmental regulations. This paper selects Chinese provincial panel data from 2003 to 2018 as a sample, calculates the narrow and broad environmental regulation intensity, and empirically analyzes the impact of environmental regulation on carbon emissions based on the SYS-GMM method from both narrow and broad perspectives. The results show that the intensity of narrow environmental regulation shows a downward trend, and the intensity of general environmental regulation is significantly improved. The impact of narrow and general environmental regulation on carbon emissions is the inverse U-type relationship that promotes post-inhibition. More obvious, China's environmental regulation can effectively curb carbon emissions; the narrow and broad environmental regulations in the eastern and central regions have shown significant "reduction of emission reduction" effects, but in the western region, only narrow environmental regulations have "reverse emission reduction" effects. Generalized environmental regulation does not exist.