The Impact of FDI on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Based on Empirical Evidence from Beijing

This paper quantitatively discusses the impact of FDI on carbon emissions in Beijing during 1988-2011. The results indicate that the real-utilized FDI in Beijing has significant long-run nexus with carbon emission, with significant long-run curbing effect but weak short-run effect. In addition, on the perspective of industrial structure, the FDI in Beijing's Secondary and Tertiary industries has significant positive and negative nexus with its carbon emissions respectively. This mainly results from the confluent impact of Beijing industrial structure, economic structure, energy efficiency structure and FDI distribution features. In the future, Beijing government is expected to further increase the ratio of FDI used in low-carbon industries.