An Empirical Study On The Effect Of FDI On Carbon Emissions In China’s Logistics Industry

In recent years, global warming becomes a serious phenomenon. In order to achieve human being’s sustainable development, every country pays great’attention to the development of low-carbon economy. China, which has the largest amount of carbon emissions in the world, is imperative to develop low-carbon economy. Logistics is an indispensable part in the economy, which means its low-carbon is related to the entire economic environment. Therefore, the research of the logistics industry is very necessary and urgent. Meanwhile, China, which is vigorously promoting foreign direct investment policy and introduces FDI actively, has become the world’s most attractive investment country. FDI not only promotes China’s economic development, but also affects China’s ecological environment. In this context, exploring the impact of FDI on the carbon emissions of China’s logistics industry has important practical significance.Based on the existing research, this paper has studied the effect of FDI on logistics industry’s carbon emissions from the perspective of industry. Firstly, this paper analyzes the status quo and energy consumption characteristics of China’s logistics industry development. Then, through the definition of logistics carbon emissions accounting method, this paper calculates the logistics carbon emissions and carbon emissions intensity to research China’s logistics industry carbon emissions’ characteristics. Because of the industry linkage, the FDI includes the logistics industry FDI and the FDI of other industries which have strong correlation with the logistics industry. In order to further investigate the effect of other industries’FDI on logistics industry’s carbon emissions, the relationship between logistics industry and other industries is analyzed by the method of input-output analysis. Finally, this paper conducts the empirical analysis of China’s logistics industry carbon emissions by FDI.The empirical research results show that the logistics industry, manufacturing industry’s FDI and total FDI has reduced the CO2 emissions and the CO2 emission intensity of China’s logistics industry significantly. This means that FDI has affected the carbon emissions of China’s logistics industry obviously and pollution heaven hypothesis is not existed in China’s logistics industry. In addition, the size of the industry, the size of the intensity of energy consumption, the degree of China’s trade openness, urbanization rate and the investment in environmental governance have a certain impact on the logistics industry.Finally, this paper puts forward relevant policy recommendations on the basis of summarizing the full text.