Characteristics of Carbon Emission Transfer under Carbon Neutrality and Carbon Peaking Background and the Impact of Environmental Policies and Regulations on It
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
As the negative effect of greenhouse effect is gradually more prominent, the carbon emission transfer receives more and more attention in the background of double carbon. This paper focuses on the relationship between Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations and carbon emission transfer. The argumentation process conforms to the relevant specifications. However, the article not only lacks the proposal of hypothesis, key literature review and the discussion of innovative points, but also, the logical framework of the questions and research is not clear. Here are some suggestions to help improve the manuscript.
(1) The title of the article seems to study the characteristics of carbon emission transfer, but the exploration of this characteristics in the article is not in-depth, but merely expounds some superficial facts.
(2) Lack of raising questions. The problem presented in the introduction that this paper attempts to address is that, To find an appropriate EPR for all countries in the world, improve the overall level of CE transfer and reduce the level of CL, However, the subsequent theoretical and empirical process did not clearly explain an appropriate EPR. It is suggested to further explore the practical problems and raise the appropriate questions.
(3) No hypothesis has been proposed. If you want to discuss the influence of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, the corresponding hypothesis should be proposed based on theoretical analysis.
(4) Lack of innovation elaboration. The article does not address the marginal contribution of this paper and needs to be described at the end of the introduction.
(5) Missing of the literature review. To study the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, it is necessary to supplement the literature in this field, and explain the shortcomings of previous research and the innovation of this paper.
(6) Carbon emission transfer has essential differences between carbon leakage. The topic seems to discuss the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, and then turns to discuss the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon leakage. The research logical processes is not clear.
(7) Insufficient theoretical and mechanism analysis. On line 122, this part analyzes the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, environment and economy, rather than an in-depth analysis of the direct impact mechanism of carbon emission transfer.
(8) Formula setting. On line 287, the policy strength item is placed as the key explanatory variable in the first position to the right of the equation.
(9) In line 313, table3, the article does not explain why the CCPI as a key explanatory variable is not significant. In addition, it is suggested that CCPI and CCPIC can be used to represent the relative policy strength and regression.
(10) In the conclusion part, the conclusion does not elaborate on the characteristics of carbon emission transfer, but rather elaborate on the total amount and intensity of carbon emission transfer in China and other countries, which is not consistent with the title itself.
Author Response
As the negative effect of greenhouse effect is gradually more prominent, the carbon emission transfer receives more and more attention in the background of double carbon. This paper focuses on the relationship between Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations and carbon emission transfer. The argumentation process conforms to the relevant specifications. However, the article not only lacks the proposal of hypothesis, key literature review and the discussion of innovative points, but also, the logical framework of the questions and research is not clear. Here are some suggestions to help improve the manuscript.
(1) The title of the article seems to study the characteristics of carbon emission transfer, but the exploration of this characteristics in the article is not in-depth, but merely expounds some superficial facts.
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. The research topic is "Characteristics of Carbon Emission Transfer under Carbon Neutrality and Carbon Peaking Background and the Impact of Environmental Policies and Regulations on It". In fact, we want to analyze the relationship between carbon emission transfer characteristics and environmental policies to propose appropriate environmental policies to reduce carbon emissions and achieve the goal of carbon emission reduction.
(2) Lack of raising questions. The problem presented in the introduction that this paper attempts to address is that, To find an appropriate EPR for all countries in the world, improve the overall level of CE transfer and reduce the level of CL, However, the subsequent theoretical and empirical process did not clearly explain an appropriate EPR. It is suggested to further explore the practical problems and raise the appropriate questions.
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. The appropriate questions have been raised in the appropriate places. The specific content is as follows:
In order to better analyze the purpose of this study, a question is raised: can appropriate environmental laws and regulations effectively reduce carbon emissions?
(3) No hypothesis has been proposed. If you want to discuss the influence of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, the corresponding hypothesis should be proposed based on theoretical analysis.
Reply: Thank you for your suggestion. Assumptions have been added. The specific content is as follows:
Therefore, the study proposes a hypothesis that appropriate climate policies and environmental regulations can promote the transfer of carbon emissions while reducing carbon emissions.
(4) Lack of innovation elaboration. The article does not address the marginal contribution of this paper and needs to be described at the end of the introduction.
Reply: Thank you for your advice. Innovation has been added at the end of the introduction. The details are shown as follows:
Many scholars have proposed many different methods to reduce carbon emissions, but there is a lack of research linking environmental policies and regulations with carbon emission transfer levels. In order to fill this research gap and find an appropriate global environmental policy and regulation to improve the overall level of carbon emission transfer. Study the construction of multinational models and theoretical models based on climate policy, trade, and carbon emission transfer to explore the relationship between the three. And conduct empirical analysis on the model proposed in the study, hoping to find a suitable environmental policy and regulation in this way, in order to improve the global carbon emission transfer level, reduce global carbon emissions, and ultimately improve the global ecological environment level.
(5) Missing of the literature review. To study the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, it is necessary to supplement the literature in this field, and explain the shortcomings of previous research and the innovation of this paper.
Reply: Thank you for your advice. We have added the literature comparison in the introduction section and explained the innovation points of this article. The details are as follows:
Many scholars have conducted many studies to reduce carbon emissions. For example, Prativa and Sun proposed a multi region input-output model to study carbon emissions in forest product trade in order to improve the level of carbon emission transfer. Research has found that carbon emissions from international trade in forest products account for approximately 25% of the total emissions from production activities. And the emission intensity of developing countries is usually much higher than that of developed countries. These findings help decision-makers understand the economic and environmental relationships of forest product trade and improve policy and agreement design [10]. In order to improve China's carbon emission transfer level, Li team proposed a top-down multi-layer emission attribution model to obtain appropriate sales and supply chain paths. This model is used to provide a detailed description of the relationship between the main input attribution and the final production attribution. The results showed that by formulating adaptive policies, encouraging upstream departments to improve clean production technologies, and encouraging downstream departments to adjust industrial structure, the domestic carbon emission transfer level can be effectively improved [11]. Wang et al. proposed a super efficiency measure based on relaxation to evaluate the carbon emission performance of Chinese cities. And they constructed traditional Markov probability transfer matrices and spatial Markov probability transfer matrices based on this. The research results indicate that the carbon emission performance of Chinese cities has steadily increased during the research period, but there are certain fluctuations. However, the overall level of carbon emission performance is still relatively low, indicating great potential for improvement in energy conservation and emission reduction. Therefore, China should continue to strengthen research and development aimed at improving urban carbon emissions performance and achieving national energy-saving and emission reduction goals. At the same time, neighboring cities with different neighborhood backgrounds should adopt a cooperative economic strategy of balanced economic growth, energy conservation and emission reduction. So it can achieve low-carbon construction and sustainable development [12]. Environmental policies and regulations (EPR) are a series of policies and regulations formulated by countries to protect the environment. A country's EPR can have an impact on the level of CE transfer in that country, but the impact effect is different due to the different EPRs of countries [13]. Many scholars have proposed many different methods to reduce carbon emissions. But there is a lack of research linking environmental policies and regulations with carbon emission transfer levels. It needs take some methods to fill this research gap and find an appropriate global environmental policy and regulation to improve the overall level of carbon emission transfer. It needs study the construction of multinational models and theoretical models based on climate policy, trade, and carbon emission transfer to explore the relationship between the three. And empirical analysis on the model proposed is conducted in the study, hoping to find a suitable environmental policy and regulation in this way. It is hoped to improve the global carbon emission transfer level, reduce global carbon emissions, and ultimately improve the global ecological environment level.
(6) Carbon emission transfer has essential differences between carbon leakage. The topic seems to discuss the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, and then turns to discuss the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon leakage. The research logical processes is not clear.
Reply: I am sorry for causing your confusion. Because carbon emissions transfer and carbon leakage have a significant impact on carbon emissions, research mainly analyzes the relationship between carbon emissions transfer and carbon emissions, carbon leakage and carbon emissions, as well as environmental policies and regulations on carbon emissions transfer and carbon leakage. Further search for a suitable policy and regulation to reduce China's carbon emissions and promote sustainable development.
(7) Insufficient theoretical and mechanism analysis. On line 122, this part analyzes the impact of Climate Policies and Environmental Regulations on carbon emission transfer, environment and economy, rather than an in-depth analysis of the direct impact mechanism of carbon emission transfer.
Reply: Thank you for your reminder. We have conducted an in-depth analysis of the direct impact mechanism of environmental policies on carbon emissions transfer in this section. The specific content is as follows:
Environmental policies and regulations can affect the transfer of carbon emissions by regulating economic activities and energy consumption. When environmental policies and regulations are formulated more strictly, such as requiring enterprises to meet a certain standard of carbon emission intensity, or requiring the use of less energy such as oil and coal, this will affect the carbon emission transfer behavior of enterprises. If companies shift towards more environmentally friendly production technologies and products, they can reduce carbon emissions and thus reduce their impact on the environment. When the government implements stricter environmental policies and regulations, it will reduce the energy consumption of enterprises, thereby reducing carbon emissions and reducing the impact on the environment. The environmental policies and regulations are such as setting stricter energy consumption standards or requiring the use of less energy like oil and coal.
(8) Formula setting. On line 287, the policy strength item is placed as the key explanatory variable in the first position to the right of the equation.
Reply: Thank you for your suggestion and for updating the formula. The updated specific formula is as follows:
(8)
(9) In line 313, table3, the article does not explain why the CCPI as a key explanatory variable is not significant.
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. As CCPI represents the environmental policy intensity of trading countries, while CCPIC represents China's environmental policy intensity, in the regression results of Table 3, the explanatory variable CCPI is not important, and the explanatory variable CCPIC is the most critical.
In addition, it is suggested that CCPI and CCPIC can be used to represent the relative policy strength and regression.
Reply: Thank you for your suggestion. In this study, CCPI and CCPIC respectively represent the environmental policy level of trading countries and China's environmental policy level, which are relative relationships.
(10) In the conclusion part, the conclusion does not elaborate on the characteristics of carbon emission transfer, but rather elaborate on the total amount and intensity of carbon emission transfer in China and other countries, which is not consistent with the title itself.
Reply: Thank you for your kind suggestion. We have added an analysis of carbon emission transfer characteristics in the conclusion section. The specific content is as follows:
Carbon emission transfer mainly has scale characteristics, direction characteristics, correlation characteristics, and adaptability characteristics. Research aims to analyze some of these characteristics and find suitable environmental policies and regulations to reduce carbon emissions.
Author Response File: 
Author Response.doc
Reviewer 2 Report
The research is good and the hypotheses are correct.
Please modify the Tables - as the writing font is larger than the paper font
Shorten long sentences for ease of reading and understanding
Thanks
Author Response
The research is good and the hypotheses are correct.
Please modify the Tables - as the writing font is larger than the paper font
Reply: Thanks for your kind suggestion. The font of the table has been adjusted, and the full text has been checked to shorten the long sentences.
Shorten long sentences for ease of reading and understanding
Reply: Thanks for your kind suggestion. Long sentences has been shortened.
Author Response File: Author Response.doc
Reviewer 3 Report
1. With the empirical analysis, can an appropriate environmental policy and regulation be realized to reduce the carbon emission level?
2. The topic is original and it addresses a specific gap in the field.
3. It provides an analysis of the effect of the rules applied within the scope of the Kyoto protocol on carbon emissions and the transfer of this carbon between countries. The results show that good environmental policies and regulations can effectively reduce global carbon emission
4. It is insufficient to discuss the findings with other references. Extra references can be added.
5. The references are appropriate.
6. As I mentioned before, there are a few typos. Other than that, the article is well prepared and English is sufficient. On the other hand, it would be good if the data used to create the figures or tables were more up-to-date, for example, in 2021 or 2022. Nevertheless, the findings presented in this manuscript fill an important gap.
Line 80-81: “Table 1. but the emission factor method has a wider scope of application, which is 80 applicable in three different scales.” The sentence must be checked.
Line 211-212: It is reported that all of the data used to calculate China's CE transfer were taken from the WIOD database developed by the European Union. Doesn't the Chinese state have data with CE in these mentioned areas? If there is, it would be more appropriate to give these data comparatively.
Line 218: Why is figure 3 not created with the more recent data for example 2021 or 2022
Author Response
1.With the empirical analysis, can an appropriate environmental policy and regulation be realized to reduce the carbon emission level?
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. The corresponding policies and regulations can inevitably reduce the level of carbon emissions, which has been explained in the article. The details are shown as follows:
The above results indicate that appropriate environmental policies and regulations can effectively reduce carbon emission intensity and promote global sustainable development.
2.The topic is original and it addresses a specific gap in the field.
Reply: Thank you for your recognition.
3.It provides an analysis of the effect of the rules applied within the scope of the Kyoto protocol on carbon emissions and the transfer of this carbon between countries. The results show that good environmental policies and regulations can effectively reduce global carbon emission
Reply: Thank you for your recognition.
4.It is insufficient to discuss the findings with other references. Extra references can be added.
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. Other literature has been added for comparison. The details are as follows:
Many scholars have conducted many studies to reduce carbon emissions. For example, Prativa and Sun proposed a multi region input-output model to study carbon emissions in forest product trade in order to improve the level of carbon emission transfer. Research has found that carbon emissions from international trade in forest products account for approximately 25% of the total emissions from production activities. And the emission intensity of developing countries is usually much higher than that of developed countries. These findings help decision-makers understand the economic and environmental relationships of forest product trade and improve policy and agreement design [10]. In order to improve China's carbon emission transfer level, Li team proposed a top-down multi-layer emission attribution model to obtain appropriate sales and supply chain paths. This model is used to provide a detailed description of the relationship between the main input attribution and the final production attribution. The results showed that by formulating adaptive policies, encouraging upstream departments to improve clean production technologies, and encouraging downstream departments to adjust industrial structure, the domestic carbon emission transfer level can be effectively improved [11]. Wang et al. proposed a super efficiency measure based on relaxation to evaluate the carbon emission performance of Chinese cities. And they constructed traditional Markov probability transfer matrices and spatial Markov probability transfer matrices based on this. The research results indicate that the carbon emission performance of Chinese cities has steadily increased during the research period, but there are certain fluctuations. However, the overall level of carbon emission performance is still relatively low, indicating great potential for improvement in energy conservation and emission reduction. Therefore, China should continue to strengthen research and development aimed at improving urban carbon emissions performance and achieving national energy-saving and emission reduction goals. At the same time, neighboring cities with different neighborhood backgrounds should adopt a cooperative economic strategy of balanced economic growth, energy conservation and emission reduction. So it can achieve low-carbon construction and sustainable development [12].
5.The references are appropriate.
Reply: Thank you for your recognition.
6.As I mentioned before, there are a few typos. Other than that, the article is well prepared and English is sufficient. On the other hand, it would be good if the data used to create the figures or tables were more up-to-date, for example, in 2021 or 2022. Nevertheless, the findings presented in this manuscript fill an important gap.
Reply: Thank you for your approval and suggestions. The data has been updated as follows:
Figure 3. The Amount and Intensity of carbon Emissions Transferred by China's Exports and the Proportion of Carbon Emissions Transferred by Various Industries.
Figure 3 (a) shows the change of CE transfer volume and CE intensity caused by China's exports from 2001 to 2021. From Figure 3 (a), the total CE transfer volume caused by China's exports increased from about 1 million tons in 2001 to 3 million tons in 2011, and reached 7.2 million tons in 2021. In addition, the export of CE intensity in China showed an overall downward trend from 2001 to 2021, and it dropped from 3.0 tons/100 dollars in 2001 to 1.6 tons/100 dollars in 2021. This shows that with the development of modern times, China's resource costs and environmental costs in international trade have been reduced. This is of great significance to promote the sustainable development of China's foreign trade and the green and low-carbon development of China's economy. Figure 3 (b) shows the proportion of export CE transfer of Chinese industries in 2001 and 2021. The three industries with the highest proportion of CE transfer in 2001 are non-metallic mineral products (0.38), agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery (0.21) and chemical products (0.11). The three industries with the highest proportion of export CE transfer in 2021 are electrical and optical equipment (0.44), base metals and metal products (0.13) and textiles (0.08).
- Line 80-81: “Table 1. but the emission factor method has a wider scope of application, which is 80 applicable in three different scales.” The sentence must be checked.
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. This sentence has been checked and now, it was correct.
- Line 211-212: It is reported that all of the data used to calculate China's CE transfer were taken from the WIOD database developed by the European Union. Doesn't the Chinese state have data with CE in these mentioned areas? If there is, it would be more appropriate to give these data comparatively.
Reply: Thank you for your kind comments, as the WIOD database developed by the European Union has carbon emission data from major countries around the world, covering a wider range of industries. Moreover, China's data in these fields is incomplete and not updated in a timely manner. Therefore, the data from the WIOD database used in this study was used.
Line 218: Why is figure 3 not created with the more recent data for example 2021 or 2022
Reply: Thank you for your suggestion. The data has been updated. The updated content is as follows:
Figure 3. The Amount and Intensity of carbon Emissions Transferred by China's Exports and the Proportion of Carbon Emissions Transferred by Various Industries.
Figure 3 (a) shows the change of CE transfer volume and CE intensity caused by China's exports from 2001 to 2021. From Figure 3 (a), the total CE transfer volume caused by China's exports increased from about 1 million tons in 2001 to 3 million tons in 2011, and reached 7.2 million tons in 2021. In addition, the export of CE intensity in China showed an overall downward trend from 2001 to 2021, and it dropped from 3.0 tons/100 dollars in 2001 to 1.6 tons/100 dollars in 2021. This shows that with the development of modern times, China's resource costs and environmental costs in international trade have been reduced. This is of great significance to promote the sustainable development of China's foreign trade and the green and low-carbon development of China's economy. Figure 3 (b) shows the proportion of export CE transfer of Chinese industries in 2001 and 2021. The three industries with the highest proportion of CE transfer in 2001 are non-metallic mineral products (0.38), agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery (0.21) and chemical products (0.11). The three industries with the highest proportion of export CE transfer in 2021 are electrical and optical equipment (0.44), base metals and metal products (0.13) and textiles (0.08).
Figure 4 shows the CE transfer and CE intensity caused by US exports to China and China's exports to the US from 2001 to 2021.
Figure 4. Carbon Dioxide Emission Transfer and Intensity Caused by US Exports to China and China's Exports to the US.
Figure 4 (a) shows the transfer and intensity of CE dioxide caused by US exports to China from 2001 to 2021. The amount of CE transfer passively undertaken by the United States has shown an overall upward trend with the increase of years, from 18000 tons in 2001 to 184000 tons in 2021. The corresponding export CE transfer intensity decreased from 0.57 tons/100 dollars in 2001 to 0.38 tons/100 dollars in 2021. Figure 4 (b) shows the transfer of CE dioxide and its intensity caused by China's exports to the United States from 2001 to 2021. The amount of CE transfer passively undertaken by China also shows an overall upward trend with the increase of years, from 198000 tons in 2001 to 1213000 tons in 2021. The corresponding export CE transfer intensity decreased from 3.03 tons/100 dollars in 2001 to 1.95 tons/100 dollars in 2021.
Author Response File: Author Response.doc
Reviewer 4 Report
As I understand it, your paper investigated the impacts of policies and trade on carbon emissions taking account of transfers and leakages. It focused on Chinese and U.S. trade (although this focus is not obvious from the article title). Basically, you seem to argue that a more nuanced carbon impact assessment is needed that takes account of carbon transfers and leakages. Your modelling of CE transfer volume and CE intensity caused by China's exports from 2001 to 2020 put Chinese export industrial activity in a more favourable environmental light compared to U.S. exports to China. You also found that strengthening climate policies of the trading partner country increased CE export intensity. The volume of CE transfer caused by China's exports rose, but its transfer intensity is decreasing year by year. Consider including some counter-arguments to ensure a balanced argument.
There are a number of linguistic issues that need addressing. I provide a selection below with relevant manuscript line # and feedback (in brackets or capitalised).
68 <and is helpless [useless?] for CE in life, transportation and other aspects STYLE
86 <Although international trade plays a huge [significant?] role in promoting the development of the 86
87 <world economy and society, X (it will) X also bring a series of problems such as CE transfer carbon leakage TENSE CONSISTENCY
104 <Obviously [Argubly?], this is unfair to developing countries CONTESTED ASSERTION
116-117 <policy is implemented or the difference in the implementation of the emission reduction policy will change its CE at home and abroad MEANING UNCLEAR
124-133 Seems to include a lot of unsubstantiated assertions that lack authority & 2 X use of journalistic adjective "enormous".
Author Response
As I understand it, your paper investigated the impacts of policies and trade on carbon emissions taking account of transfers and leakages.It focused on Chinese and U.S. trade (although this focus is not obvious from the article title). Basically, you seem to argue that a more nuanced carbon impact assessment is needed that takes account of carbon transfers and leakages. Your modelling of CE transfer volume and CE intensity caused by China's exports from 2001 to 2020 put Chinese export industrial activity in a more favourable environmental light compared to U.S. exports to China. You also found that strengthening climate policies of the trading partner country increased CE export intensity.The volume of CE transfer caused by China's exports rose, but its transfer intensity is decreasing year by year.
- Consider including some counter-arguments to ensure a balanced argument.
Reply: Thank you for your suggestion. A counter argument has been added to the text and demonstrated. The specific content is as follows:
In order to better demonstrate the relationship between environmental climate policies and carbon emissions, the study proposes an argument that there is no clear relationship between environmental climate policies and carbon emissions.
The above results indicate that environmental policies and regulations can significantly affect the intensity of carbon emissions that have passed, which contradicts our argument that the relationship between environmental climate policies and carbon emissions is not significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that the argument proposed in the study is incorrect, and it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between environmental climate policies and carbon emissions. Therefore, changing environmental and climate policies can reduce carbon emission intensity and thereby improve global environmental standards.
- There are a number of linguistic issues that need addressing. I provide a selection below with relevant manuscript line # and feedback (in brackets or capitalised).
(1) 68 <and is helpless [useless?] for CE in life, transportation and other aspects STYLE
Reply: Thanks for your comment. The linguistic issues were and shown as follows.
However, this calculation method is only limited to CE in industry or manufacturing, and is useless for CE in life, transportation and other aspects.
(2) 86 <Although international trade plays a huge [significant?] role in promoting the development of the 86
Reply: Thanks for your comment. The linguistic issues were revised and shown as follows.
Although international trade plays a significant role in promoting the development of the world economy and society, it also brings a series of problems such as CE transfer and carbon leakage [25].
(3) 87 <world economy and society, X (it will) X also bring a series of problems such as CE transfer carbon leakage TENSE CONSISTENCY
Reply: Thanks for your comment. The linguistic issues were revised and shown as follows.
Although international trade plays a significant role in promoting the development of the world economy and society, it also brings a series of problems such as CE transfer and carbon leakage [25].
(4) 104 <Obviously [Argubly?], this is unfair to developing countries CONTESTED ASSERTION
Reply: Thanks for your comment. The linguistic issues were revised and shown as follows.
Argubly, this is unfair to developing countries [31].
(5) 116-117 <policy is implemented or the difference in the implementation of the emission reduction policy will change its CE at home and abroad MEANING UNCLEAR
Reply: Thanks for your comment. The linguistic issues were revised and shown as follows.
Carbon leakage highlights that regardless of whether emission reduction policies are implemented or the differences in their implementation efforts, their carbon emissions both domestically and internationally will change.
124-133 Seems to include a lot of unsubstantiated assertions that lack authority & 2 X use of journalistic adjective "enormous".
Reply: Thanks for your comment. The linguistic issues were and shown as follows.
The impact of EPR on CE transfer is relatively obvious.
Therefore, the impact of EPR on CE transfer is relatively obvious.
Author Response File: Author Response.doc
Reviewer 5 Report
This topic is interesting and this paper is well organized, and thus，this paper can be published at the current form.
Author Response
This topic is interesting and this paper is well organized, and thus，this paper can be published at the current form.
Reply: Thank you very much for your approval, thank you.
Author Response File: Author Response.doc
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
In your reply, you mentioned more than once that the research aims at finding an appropriate environmental policy and regulation to reduce carbon emissions, but it is not mentioned in the article or conclusion, and this article mostly discusses the impact of appropriate climate policies and environmental regulations on carbon emissions (just as you mentioned the research purpose), so it is suggested to adjust this statement.
Author Response
In your reply, you mentioned more than once that the research aims at finding an appropriate environmental policy and regulation to reduce carbon emissions, but it is not mentioned in the article or conclusion, and this article mostly discusses the impact of appropriate climate policies and environmental regulations on carbon emissions (just as you mentioned the research purpose), so it is suggested to adjust this statement.
Reply: Thank you for your suggestion. The statement mentioned by the reviewer was adjusted in the revised paper. See below:
“Therefore, the study will investigate the correlation between climate policies and environmental regulations and carbon emissions, in order to fill this research gap and analyze the specific impact of appropriate climate policies and environmental regulations on carbon emissions.”
“And empirical analysis was conducted on the proposed model, hoping to clarify the specific relationship between climate and environmental policies and carbon emissions, in order to provide suggestions for the development of carbon reduction work.”
