The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2024, 6(10); doi: 10.25236/FSST.2024.061013.
Zhiang Yang
University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, California, the United States
In China, carbon emission reduction programs have become a hot topic in academia in recent years, and since the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan, they have been greatly strengthened, and it is crucial to explore the impacts of governmental actions on companies. Using a survey methodology, this paper collects results from 76 companies to explore the impacts of environmental protection policies on businesses during the 13th to 14th Five-Year Plan periods in terms of the program's transmissibility, the challenges it poses to businesses, and the reasonableness of the government's behavior when implementing it, respectively. The results show that the program has posed relatively big challenges to firms and that there are some irrationalities in the government's governance. The paper concludes by giving recommendations on the problems of the program.
Five-year plan, Project evaluation, Carbon eduction, Environemntal protection, China study
Zhiang Yang. Stakeholder Perspectives on the Carbon Emission Reduction Program in Jiangsu Province: Insights from a Survey-Based Study. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 10: 89-96. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2024.061013.
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