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  "abstract": "Climate finance constitutes a critical mechanism for addressing global climate change, and its implementation profoundly affects regional environmental governance and carbon emissions. This study analyses the impact of climate finance on urban carbon emissions in China from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. By constructing a specialised index framework to measure climate financial development and leveraging panel data from 258 Chinese prefecture-level cities for the period 2008–2020, the study reveals that climate finance catalyses the reduction of municipal carbon emissions. Specifically, a 1% increase in the climate finance metric corresponds to a 0.1099-unit decline in carbon emissions per 10,000 individuals. Mediation analysis further clarifies that this mitigation effect is transmitted by elevating the stringency of environmental regulation and stimulating climate-friendly technological innovation. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the emission reduction effect is significantly stronger in low-carbon pilot cities, non-resource-based cities, and cities with a higher level of industrial structure. By providing robust empirical evidence on the relationship between climate finance and carbon emissions in China, this study offers crucial insights for policymakers to design differentiated spatial strategies and targeted transition finance frameworks for deep decarbonisation.",
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  "published": "2026-10-30",
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  "title": "Effect of climate finance on carbon emissions: evidence from Chinese cities",
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