Research On The Impact Of Environmental Regulations On China’s Energy Security

Since the 1970s,the outbreak of the oil crisis has promoted energy security to the level of global national strategy.Energy security has become an important core issue of national security,which is related to the normal operation of a country’s national economy and the stability and long-term social stability of a country.In recent years,China’s important energy sources such as oil,coal and natural gas and external dependency import concentration increasing,the country’s energy consumption structure is unreasonable,low energy efficiency,energy ecological environment worsening,geopolitical risks to our energy security problems such as serious threats,at the same time,this situation has caused extensive concern of the theoretical circle,analysis and evaluation of energy security situation,put forward the countermeasures and Suggestions of ensuring our energy security become the hot topic in theory.In this paper,starting from the connotation and denotation of energy security,based on the theory of "3 e" built contains energy supply and consumption,economic,environmental and safety of energy security,a comprehensive evaluation model and methods based on the combination of the objective to determine the index of China’s energy security,and further using TOPSIS method to evaluate the 2000-2017 China’s energy security,energy supply security level security level,energy consumption,energy economic security level and energy environment security level.On this basis,this paper empirically measured the impact of various environmental regulation tools on China’s comprehensive energy security,energy supply security,energy consumption security,energy economic security and energy environmental security,and explored new ways to ensure China’s energy security from the new perspective of environmental regulation.The main work of this paper is as follows:(1)The research status at home and abroad is summarized,and the influence mechanism of environmental regulation on energy security is analyzed.Based on the existing research,this paper systematically sorts out the historical evolution and conceptual connotation of energy security and environmental regulation,and summarizes the relationship between environmental regulation and energy,so as to provide a theretical basis for exploring the influence mechanism of environmental regulation on energy security(2)The energy security evaluation model was constructed based on the energy securityconcept in the new era and the "3E" theory.The energy security index weight was determined through the improved combination weighting method,and the energy security level in China from 2000 to 2017 was further evaluated based on TOPSIS method.Then,the dynamic trends of China’s energy security level,energy supply security level,energy consumption security level,energy economy security level and energy environment security level are analyzed based on the domestic and foreign environmental changes from 2000 to 2017.(3)An econometric regression model was constructed to examine the impact of environmental regulation tools on China’s energy security.On the basis of the existing research,this paper summarizes environmental regulation tools into five categories,namely formal environmental regulation tools and informal environmental regulation tools,and constructs an econometric regression model to test its impact on China’s energy security.Further,while building the econometric model,this paper introduces control variables such as technological innovation,industrial structure,foreign investment and economic development level to study its impact on China’s energy security.(4)Based on the results of energy security evaluation and the empirical results of the impact of environmental regulation on energy security,this paper puts forward four reasonable Suggestions from the new perspective of environmental regulation to protect China’s energy security,and further develops the "innovation compensation" effect of environmental regulation to promote energy technology innovation.Rational use of formal environmental regulatory tools;Exploring the potential impact of informal environmental regulation tools;By effectively integrating different environmental regulation tools and giving full play to their respective advantages,countermeasures and suggestions are put forward to ensure China’s energy security.