| In recent decades,due to the continuous breakthrough and improvement of science and technology,China has achieved great development and harvest in industry,which has greatly promoted the rapid development of China’s economy.At the same time,it has also brought problems such as rapid consumption of resources,erosion of soil and rivers by pollutants and rapid deterioration of ecological environment.With the increasingly severe ecological environment situation facing China,the Party Central Committee began to gradually list environmental protection and pollution prevention as an important goal of social development,and has always adhered to the path of green sustainable development,vigorously advocated green innovation,took green technological innovation as the main driving force for development,and injected fresh blood into the development of green ecological construction in China.Since the promulgation of the environmental protection law,the Party Central Committee has successively issued a series of detailed laws and regulations to help regulate environmental pollution.In addition,it has also strengthened the supervision of environmental law enforcement.That is,for a long time,China has operated a mechanism dominated by administrative punishment and supplemented by judicial protection[1].However,this mechanism has the defects of insufficient punishment and deterrence,which makes the cost of environmental violations low and the problem of environmental pollution recurring.Therefore,we urgently need to improve the status of environmental justice and give full play to the role of environmental justice.At present,the specialization of environmental justice came into being,which is mainly reflected in the large-scale establishment of environmental protection courts across the country.The environmental protection court is a special institution that hears environmental cases according to law according to special environmental judicial procedures and equipped with corresponding professionals.First of all,the environmental protection court has optimized the existing environmental trial function,specialized professionals to solve environmental cases,uniformly punish environmental violations,and protect environmental rights and interests that may be infringed;Secondly,the environmental protection court has unified the environmental trial scale,and specialized personnel try environmental litigation cases according to the unified scale,so as to avoid deviation and injustice and improve the level of environmental justice;Finally,the environmental protection court handles environmental cases uniformly,saves unnecessary judicial costs,avoids the waste of judicial resources,and improves the efficiency of environmental trial.Therefore,the environmental protection court makes the"hand of environmental justice"reliable and powerful,so that the model provisions in laws and regulations can be truly implemented into environmental protection behavior,which improves the action force,strengthens the environmental responsibility,and makes enterprises bear greater environmental pressure.Green technology innovation is an effective way to achieve win-win economic development and environmental protection.It can reduce consumption and emission from the source and reduce the possibility of pollution.Therefore,the emergence of environmental protection court makes enterprises bear strong environmental pressure for a long time.Will it encourage them to choose the"transformation"strategy with long-term development and strengthen green innovation?Based on this,this paper attempts to explore the relationship between environmental court and enterprise green innovation based on the background of environmental justice reform.Firstly,this paper combs the relevant literature on"environmental judicial specialization"and enterprise green innovation,then based on Porter hypothesis,technological innovation theory and sustainable development theory,finally selects China’s A-share listed companies from 2004 to 2020 as samples,manually collects relevant environmental court data,and establishes a multi-stage did model to verify the impact of environmental Court on enterprise green innovation.The study found that the establishment of environmental protection court will promote the green innovation behavior of enterprises,and through specialization to accept and try environmental cases,improve the efficiency of environmental justice,and then promote the green innovation of enterprises,that is,the efficiency of environmental justice plays an important intermediary role.At the same time,considering that the enterprise is in a dynamic environment,any decision will be affected by various factors in the external environment.Therefore,this paper further examines the impact on the relationship between environmental court and enterprise green innovation from three aspects:political factors,industrial factors and economic factors of the external environment.Firstly,political factors are proposed to select the green assessment system for officials and the national development planning period（"Eleventh Five Year Plan","Twelfth Five Year Plan"and"thirteenth five year plan"）;Secondly,the industry factor considers the degree of industry competition in the product market;Finally,economic factors consider two different economic cycles:economic upward period and economic downward period.Through empirical research,it is found that the role of environmental protection court in promoting enterprise green innovation is more significant after the implementation of official green evaluation system and in the 13th Five Year Plan period;In industries with strong product market competition,the environmental protection court plays a stronger role in promoting green innovation of enterprises;Compared with the economic upward period,in the economic downward period,the environmental protection court significantly affects the green innovation behavior of enterprises.Finally,according to the research content of this paper,some suggestions are put forward from the enterprise level,the judicial level and the government level.On the one hand,enterprises should correctly face the environmental protection court,establish a long-term vision,improve the enterprise R&D management system,and match the information disclosure mechanism that helps enterprises’green innovation work;On the other hand,environmental justice needs to improve the legal basis of environmental protection court,so as to improve the environmental protection court system.In addition,while vigorously supporting enterprises’green innovation activities,the government should also focus on cultivating public awareness and ability of environmental rights.Based on the macro background of"specialization of environmental justice",this paper creatively combines environmental protection court with enterprise green innovation,and studies the micro relationship between them.In addition to the innovation of research perspective,this paper manually collects the data of all environmental protection courts in provinces and cities across the country,including the establishment time,the number of relevant cases handled each year,and uses fine data to quantitatively measure the specialization of environmental justice,so that the research is not limited to the qualitative description and evaluation of the specialization of environmental justice.At the same time,the number of green patents is used to measure the green innovation behavior of enterprises,and the two are combined to conduct a detailed empirical test.In addition,this paper also further studies the possible path of the environmental court to affect the green innovation of enterprises:Environmental judicial efficiency,and considers the external environmental factors in detail.It carefully selects from multiple dimensions,including the green assessment of official promotion,the 11th,12th and 13th five year planning periods,industries with strong product market competition,and the economic up and down periods as the measurement indicators of the external environment,which has certain innovation in the research content.Theoretically,this study not only enriches the research on the consequences of environmental judicial specialization,expands the research on the microeconomic consequences of environmental courts affecting the micro behavior of enterprises,but also opens up a new and researchable perspective,and expands the research on the antecedents of enterprise green innovation to a certain extent.In practice,this paper provides an empirical evidence for understanding the role of the environmental protection court,provides a certain theoretical basis for the further construction and improvement of the specialization of environmental justice,provides detailed and accurate intellectual support for the development and planning of China’s relevant environmental justice system,and provides a certain theoretical reference and empirical evidence for environmental pollution prevention and control,enterprise green innovation and green ecological civilization construction. |
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