Does Land Urbanization Affect the Catch-Up Effect of Carbon Emissions Reduction in China’s Logistics?

Bingquan Liu (), Yue Wang, Xuran Chang, Boyang Nie, Lingqi Meng and Yongqing Li
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Bingquan Liu: School of Economics & Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Yue Wang: School of Economics & Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Xuran Chang: School of Economics & Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Boyang Nie: School of Economics & Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Lingqi Meng: School of Economics & Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Yongqing Li: School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: Logistics is playing an important role in China with the rapid growth of the digital economy, and has caused large quantities of carbon emissions as an energy-intensive industry. Due to the extreme imbalance of land urbanization, the performance of carbon emissions reduction in logistics is significantly different among regions. This paper establishes a new indicator to describe the carbon emissions catch-up effect and decomposes the impact of land urbanization into 4 driving factors, thereby identifying the impact of land urbanization on carbon emissions catch-up effect in detail. The results indicate that: (1) at the national level, the catch-up effect of carbon emissions in logistics showed three stages of “catching up-lagging behind-catching up”, which was consistent with the development of logistics. (2) At the regional level, the land urbanization-related factors had significant but different impacts on the catch-up effect of carbon emissions. The spatial expansion and road network density effect were the main inhibitors for catch-up effect of the eastern region, and spatial structure effect was the main inhibitor for central and western regions. (3) At the provincial level, the impact of land urbanization-related factors on provinces at different development stages was different. Finally, some policy implications are proposed to achieve carbon neutrality targets.

Keywords: land urbanization; carbon emissions; catch-up effect; logistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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