Abstract：
Inspection, standing for top-down environmental management practices, also known as campaign-style governance, is used by central governments to lessen local environmental pollution. However, there is no causal evidence for carbon abatement. Employing staggered difference-in-differences (DiD), I find that inspected cities mitigate carbon intensity and carbon emissions by 3.72% and 2.34%, respectively, with economic significance. Conducting a triple difference strategy, I suggest the channels are the local people\'s congresses and political consultative conferences\' proposals, government attention, environmental regulation, industrial structure, and green innovation. Also, the heterogeneous effects suggest that municipal party secretaries assigned to their birthplace, the older the party standing and age, and those with natural sciences majors, are more conducive to the inspection achieving carbon mitigation. An alternative DiD specification shows that the \"look-back\" inspection achieves sustained carbon reduction. I support the argument that top-down inspection helps achieve resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
摘要：
Inspection,代表自上而下的环境管理实践，也被称为竞选式治理，被中央政府用来减轻地方环境污染。然而,碳减排没有因果关系。采用交错差异(DiD)，我发现被检查的城市减少了3.72%和2.34%的碳强度和碳排放，分别,具有经济意义。实行三重差异战略,我建议渠道是地方人大和政治协商会议的提案，政府关注,环境法规,产业结构,绿色创新。此外，异质效应表明，市委书记被分配到他们的出生地，党的地位和年龄越大，那些有自然科学专业的人，更有利于检查实现碳减排。替代的DID规范表明，“回顾”检查可实现持续的碳减排。我支持自上而下的检查有助于实现应对气候变化和减少温室气体排放的论点。
