Carbon emissions trading policy, carbon finance, and carbon emissions reduction: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
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Carbon emissions trading policy; Investment and financing facilitating carbon emissions reduction; Carbon emissions reduction; Carbon finance;All these keywords.
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- G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
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