Can green technology innovations achieve the collaborative management of pollution reduction and carbon emissions reduction? Evidence from the Chinese industrial sector.

An appropriate green technology innovation and industrial structural adjustment can facilitate the transition to a greener industrial economy under the Sustainable Development Goals framework. The collaborative management of industrial pollution reduction (IPR) and industrial carbon dioxide emissions reduction (ICR) in the industrial green transformation (IGT) is increasingly drawing attention internationally. Using panel data from 2008 to 2021 for provincial industrial sectors in China, this study uses a structural equation model to empirically investigate how green technologies influence IGT and its sub-goals (including IPR and ICR) through industrial restructuring approaches.