Objective/Meaning The existing studies on the agricultural carbon emissions not only ignored the important emission sources such as soil management, lime application and field biomass burning, but also rarely involved the calculation of agricultural carbon emissions at the city level. Furthermore, there was a distinct lack of literature on the impact of digital economy on the municipal agricultural carbon emissions.
Methods/Procedures In order to make up for the lack of existing research and enrich the related research, based on the data of 280 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2021, the impact of digital economy on the urban agricultural carbon emissions was analyzed.
Results/Conclusions The research found that: (1) The conclusion that the digital economy could reduce the agricultural carbon emissions was still valid after a series of robustness tests. (2) The heterogeneity analysis revealed that the digital economy had significant inhibitory effect on the agricultural carbon emissions in the production-consumption balance zones, major grain-producing regions, major grain-consuming regions, planting areas and aquaculture zones, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Chengdu-Chongqing region, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Yellow River Basin, the cities east of the Hu Huanyong Line, as well as the eastern and western Chinese cities. (3) The moderating mechanism suggested that the urban ecological resilience and new-type urbanization strengthened the inhibitory effect of digital economy on the agricultural carbon emissions. This study not only improved the urban-scale measurement framework for the agricultural carbon emissions, but also provided the policy insights for advancing the green and low-carbon transformation of agriculture.
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