Abstract:To achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, it has become a new trend to focus on the participation of all people and "government-public" collaborative governance. Based on the spatial spillover perspective, this paper constructs a spatial Durbin model to observe the effect of government, public and government-public collaborative emission reduction and spatial spillover effects using panel data of 30 provinces (excluding Tibet and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in China from 2003 to 2019. The results show that there are significant local effects and spatial spillover effects of current government governance instruments, while the carbon reduction effects of public governance behaviors are still limited. Government-public collaborative governance can reduce carbon emission intensity in the region, but this mechanism mainly exists in the eastern region, and is not yet significant in the central and western regions. The strengthening of central government regulation is conducive to enhancing the joint emission reduction effect of local governments and the public. Based on this, the following suggestions are made: strengthen government-led carbon emission reduction, deepen regional joint prevention and control mechanism; unblock public participation in carbon emission reduction channels and promote deep participation of dual carbon talents; reasonably strengthen central government supervision and implementation of low-carbon control measures; improve diversified low-carbon governance policies and maximize the advantages of carbon emission reduction according to local conditions.