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The Impact of Population Aging on Carbon Emissions: Based on the Perspective of Industrial Structure Upgrading and Rationalization
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Abstract
China's aging population society has entered a high-speed deepening stage, promoting energy saving and emission reduction, realizing low carbon development history is an important strategic task in our country. On the Basis of panel data since 2011 to 2021, using an intermediate effect model, this paper studies the relations among the population aging, industry structure upgrading as well as rationalization and the emission of carbon dioxide. The results indicate that aging exerts a significant positive impact on carbon emissions. The influence of population aging on carbon emissions is inverted U shape. When aging reaches a certain level, the influence on carbon emissions has a nonlinear feature of decreasing marginal effect. The aging can exert a prominent influence on carbon emissions in the regions through upgrading and rationalization of the industrial structure. That influence about population aging on carbon emissions is remarkable in the region. Therefore, promoting the optimization process of industry structure forced by population aging contributes to realizing "reduction effect of carbon emissions" under the background of population aging.
Keywords
population aging, industrial structure advanced, industrial structure rationalized, carbon emissions
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Li,X. (2025). The Impact of Population Aging on Carbon Emissions: Based on the Perspective of Industrial Structure Upgrading and Rationalization. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,159,48-60.
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