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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance
on Agricultural Carbon Emissions:
Evidence from China
1
School of Business, Jiangsu Ocean University, Lianyungang, China
2
Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3
School of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
Submission date: 2024-01-07
Final revision date: 2024-04-05
Acceptance date: 2024-04-14
Online publication date: 2024-09-18
Publication date: 2025-01-09
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(2):1593-1605
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ABSTRACT
As an important financial instrument, digital inclusive finance (DIF) represents a significant pathway
toward achieving sustainable development. Utilizing the fixed-effects, mediation effects, moderation
effects, and threshold effects models, this study investigates the influence and detailed mechanism of DIF
on agricultural carbon emissions through provincial data in China from 2011 to 2020. The results reveal
that: (1) DIF leads to a reduction in agricultural carbon emissions, with the greatest effect observed in
the dimension of deep agricultural carbon reduction. (2) The carbon reduction effect can be achieved
by enhancing entrepreneurial vitality among farmers, an advanced agricultural industrial structure,
and increased levels of agricultural product trade. (3) There is a substitution effect, where large-scale
farmland operations weaken the carbon reduction effect. (4) Beyond a certain threshold, DIF exerts a
stronger restraining effect on carbon emissions. The conclusions have implications for the government’s
promotion of digital infrastructure and green development in the agriculture industry. Consequently, this
study suggests that the development of DIF should be accelerated.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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