Carbon emissions refer to the emission of carbon-based gases such as carbon dioxide in the process of energy consumption. The new energy demonstration policy is an important policy in China’s energy transition process. There is no relevant literature to scientifically assess the impact of the new energy demonstration policy on carbon emissions in Guangxi, and there is a lack of in-depth elaboration on the mechanism of the new energy demonstration cities. Therefore, this paper uses panel data of 14 cities above prefecture level in Guangxi from 2003 to 2022 to identify the policy effects of Guangxi’s new energy demonstration city policy on carbon emissions by using a double difference model with the new energy demonstration city policy as a quasi-natural experiment, and tests the robustness of the new energy demonstration policy by using counterfactuals and excluding the interference of other policies to fill the gap in the effects of Guangxi’s new energy demonstration city policy.

Jian Chen, Kaiping Wang, Jing Li, Hao Ma, Xiangyu Liu. Analysis of the Effectiveness of New Energy City Demonstration Policies in Guangxi--Based on Carbon Double Difference Modeling. Academic Journal of Environment & Earth Science (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 5: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJEE.2024.060501.

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