Business environmental innovation and CO2 emissions: The moderating role of environmental governance
研究了2016-2020年伦敦证券交易所上市公司数据，发现环境创新能减少二氧化碳排放，且环境治理越强，减排效果越好。
Abstract This paper examines the effects of environmental innovation on CO 2 emissions as well as the moderating role of environmental governance in this relationship. Based on a sample of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange for the period from 2016 to 2020, the findings show that environmental innovation reduces CO 2 emissions including Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO 2 emissions. Likewise, our findings are associative of a moderating effect of environmental governance on the environmental innovation‐CO 2 emissions nexus. We argue that environmental innovation along with better environmental governance leads to a reduction in CO 2 emissions. Our results hold for subsamples of firms with a strong/low environmental governance and ESG performance. Our findings offer important implications for companies and policymakers towards adopting more environmental technologies along with enhancing environmental governance to reduce CO 2 emissions.