Revealing Dynamic Effects Of China's Regional Coal Consumption Control Policy On Energy Efficiency And Pollution Emissions

Up to now, far too little attention has been paid to comprehensively assessing the impact of the coal consumption constraint policy (CCCP) on energy intensity and pollution emissions based on China cities level. The present study explores the impact of CCCP on energy intensity and pollution emissions in a panel of 73 Chinese cities using an SEM approach from 2005 to 2019. We find that the CCCP has significantly reduced SO 2 and CO 2 emission intensity and energy intensity by 0.1283%, 0.0747%, and 0.2493% respectively, but the CCCP effect on CO 2 emission intensity and energy intensity has a lag of 3 years. Thus CCCP can effectively reduce emission intensity through industrial restructuring and technology advanced is the only effective way to reduce energy intensity. The study provides some valuable suggestions to enable the control of coal consumption.