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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab1965
	The impact of environmental protection tax on sectoral and spatial distribution of air pollution emissions in China
	Hu X.; Sun Y.; Liu J.; Meng J.; Wang X.; Yang H.; Xu J.; Yi K.; Xiang S.; Li Y.; Yun X.; Ma J.; Tao S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:5
英文摘要	Environmental problems, associated with climate change and air pollution, have become increasingly serious for China in recent years, which have aroused great domestic and international concerns. To mitigate these problems with great efforts, the Chinese government has implemented the Environmental Protection Tax Law in the whole country since the beginning of 2018. Although the new tax law is perceived as an aggressive policy that tends to establish a taxation system for promoting air pollution control, evaluations of its effectiveness are insufficient and urgently needed for China. Using a multiregion multisector Computable General Equilibrium model, we, for the first time, quantify the impacts of this 'pollution tax' policy on modulating air pollutants emissions. Our analysis shows that current tax policy is generally able to reduce many short-lived air pollutants emissions (e.g. SO2, NO X , TSP, PM10, PM2.5, CO, VOCs, OC, NH3 and BC), but the significant effects only happen in regions with large economic scale (i.e. Guangdong, Shandong and Zhejiang provinces) and in sectors with high emission intensity (i.e. the electric power and nonmetal manufacturing sectors). However, at the national level, the overall effect of the current policy on air pollution mitigation is relatively small, less than 2% compared to a business-as-usual scenario. Large emission reduction potentials exist if the tax increases. Therefore, a more ambitious tax policy is urgently needed in order to achieve China's air pollution mitigation target of 2020. We also find that in China for implementing any pollution tax policies, the rate of decline in CO2 emissions is much larger than those of short-lived pollutants, which indicates a huge co-benefit on global climate change mitigation. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	air pollution; CGE; China; climate mitigation; computable general equilibrium model; environmental protection tax
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Ammonia; Climate change; Climate models; Emission control; Environmental protection; Environmental regulations; Taxation; China; Climate mitigations; Computable general equilibrium model; Emission reduction potentials; Environmental problems; Global climate changes; High emission intensity; Manufacturing sector; Air pollution; atmospheric pollution; computable general equilibrium analysis; emission control; environmental impact assessment; environmental protection; mitigation; pollution tax; spatial distribution; China; Guangdong; Shandong; Zhejiang
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154582
作者单位	Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, 313 Ames Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States; Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London, London, WC1E 7HB, United Kingdom; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern CaliforniaCA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hu X.,Sun Y.,Liu J.,et al. The impact of environmental protection tax on sectoral and spatial distribution of air pollution emissions in China[J],2019,14(5).
APA	Hu X..,Sun Y..,Liu J..,Meng J..,Wang X..,...&Tao S..(2019).The impact of environmental protection tax on sectoral and spatial distribution of air pollution emissions in China.Environmental Research Letters,14(5).
MLA	Hu X.,et al."The impact of environmental protection tax on sectoral and spatial distribution of air pollution emissions in China".Environmental Research Letters 14.5(2019).