Take a ride on the (not so) green side: How do CDM projects affect Indian manufacturing firms’ environmental performance?

Jūratė Jaraitė, Oliwia Kurtyka and Hélène Ollivier
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Jūratė Jaraitė: Vilnius University [Vilnius], Umeå University = Umeå Universitet
Oliwia Kurtyka: UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes, GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: This study examines the causal impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the environmental performance of Indian manufacturing firms, as measured by their energy use, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and intensities of CO2 emissions per sales and per energy use. The impacts of CDM projects are estimated using either two-way fixed-effect regressions or an estimator built for an event study with staggered treatment (Sun and Abraham, 2021) combined with a sample of ever-treated firms only or a sample comparing treated to never-treated control firms using semi-parametric matching. We found that CDM projects significantly increased firms' CO2 emissions and energy use after treatment, but had no effect on CO2 emission intensity per sales and only a small negative effect on the CO2 content of energy use (only for the matched sample). These results reveal that CDM projects led to a positive scale effect (increased sales) after investments were made, and that these investments triggered a limited emission-reducing technique effect (decreased CO2 intensity).

Keywords: CDM projects; CO2 emissions; Firms’ environmental performance; India; Micro level data; Carbon offsets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 114, ⟨10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102684⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102684

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