农业绿色创新能否促进碳减排基于异质性农业环境规制政策的门槛效应研究
Will green innovation promote agricultural carbon emission reduction: The threshold effects of heterogeneous agricultural environmental regulation policies
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摘要: 在创新驱动和绿色低碳战略导向下, 探讨农业绿色技术创新如何在农业环境规制的约束下促进农业碳减排, 对提升农业绿色技术水平、优化农业环境规制及促进农业绿色发展有现实意义。基于我国31个省(自治区、直辖市, 不包括香港、澳门和台湾) 2001—2022年面板数据, 采用面板门槛回归模型, 分析我国农业绿色技术创新对农业碳减排的影响机理, 重点关注不同政策导向的农业环境规制能否改变不同类型农业绿色技术创新对农业碳减排的影响路径。研究结果显示: 1)农业绿色技术创新密度对农业碳减排具有显著促进作用, 其中污染防治型绿色创新的减排效应略高于资源保护型绿色创新, 说明技术创新的结构特征对减排路径具有重要影响; 2)农业环境规制对农业碳减排同样有显著促进作用, 但存在政策滞后性, 其中, 资源保护型环境规制的直接减排效应更强; 3)在影响机制中, 农业环境规制及其子类型(资源保护型与污染防治型)均表现出显著的单门槛效应, 表明当环境规制强度跨越特定门槛值后, 能够更有效地激发农业绿色技术创新的碳减排潜力, 印证了“波特假说”在农业部门的适用性, 也说明当前我国农业环境规制整体仍处于合理强度区间, 具备进一步优化和精细调控的空间。基于此, 政府应积极鼓励农业绿色技术创新, 特别是污染防治型农业技术的研发、推广与应用; 同时应重点关注资源保护型环境规制的制定与落实, 积极完善农业环境保护法律法规体系, 推动实现低碳绿色农业。Abstract: In the context of innovation-driven and low-carbon strategies, assessing the role of agricultural green technological innovation in reducing carbon emissions under environmental regulations is essential for strengthening green technological capability, refining policy design, and advancing sustainable agricultural development. Using panel data from 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities, excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) from 2001 to 2022, this study applied a panel threshold regression model to investigate how agricultural green technology innovation influenced carbon emissions reduction, with particular attention to the moderating role of different types of agricultural environmental regulation. The findings suggested the following: 1) The improvement of agricultural green technology innovation helped reduce agricultural carbon emissions; in particular, pollution prevention-oriented innovations played a greater role than resource conservation innovations in reducing agricultural emissions. This indicated that the structural characteristics of technological innovation had a significant impact on agricultural emission-reduction pathways. 2) Agricultural environmental regulation significantly reduced agricultural carbon emissions, although with a policy lag. Resource conservation-oriented regulation exerted a stronger direct effect on emissions reduction. 3) Agricultural environmental regulation and its subtypes (resource conservation and pollution prevention) all exhibited single-threshold effects. In particular, resource conservation-oriented and pollution prevention-oriented regulations could more effectively activate the potential of agricultural green technology innovations for reducing agricultural carbon emission, due to their lower thresholds and greater efficiency. This implied that strengthening environmental regulations further stimulated agricultural green technology innovation and reduced carbon emissions, while the precise alignment between differentiated regulations and green innovations enhanced emission-reduction effects, thereby confirming that the Porter Hypothesis remained valid in the agricultural sector. Moreover, the single-threshold effect indicated that China’s current agricultural environmental regulations remained within a moderate range, effectively promoting green agricultural technological innovation and advancing green agricultural development. Based on these findings, policymakers should actively promote green agricultural technological innovations, particularly in the development, dissemination, and adoption of pollution prevention technologies. At the same time, more emphasis should be placed on strengthening resource conservation-oriented environmental regulations and improving the legal and regulatory framework for agricultural environmental protection to accelerate the transition toward low-carbon and sustainable agriculture.
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