Convergence of per capita sulphur dioxide emissions across US states

Payne, James E.; Miller, Stephanie; Lee, Junsoo; Cho, Myeong Hyeon

doi:10.1080/00036846.2013.868588

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“…Similarly, there is mixed evidence of stochastic conditional convergence in pollution emissions across states of the United States. For example, Bulte et al, (2007), List (1999) and Payne et al, (2014) find evidence of conditional convergence, but Aldy (2007) does not find any such evidence.…”

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“…Second, from a methodological perspective, we follow Meng et al (2013) and employ LM and RALS-LM unit root tests with up to two endogenous breaks, proposed by Meng et al (2014) and Lee et al (2012). 1 These unit root tests have several advantages over other popular alternatives (see Lee et al, 2012;Meng et al, 2013Meng et al, , 2014Meng et al, , 2015Payne et al, 2014Payne et al, , 2015. One, they do not depend on the nuisance parameter and allow for trend breaks under the null.…”

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“…A second, related, set of studies test for stochastic conditional convergence in CO2 and SO2 emissions (see eg. Aldy, 2007;Barrassi et al, 2008Barrassi et al, , 2011Bulte et al, 2007;Evans & Kim, 2016;Nguyen Van, 2005;Lee & Chang, 2008;List, 1999;Nourry, 2009;Payne et al, 2014;Strazicich & List, 2003). Evans and Kim (2016) find evidence of conditional convergence in CO2 emissions across 11 Asian countries.…”

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Conditional convergence in Australia's energy consumption at the sector level

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Smyth

2017

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Conditional convergence in Australia's energy consumption at the sector level

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“…Therefore, policymakers should take explicitly into account such regional differences in the designing of mitigation policies (Burnett 2016 ; Apergis and Payne 2017 ), including other indicators beyond the uniform per capita allowances in the emission allocation schemes, such as the ability to pay or adjustment costs. This issue has attracted the interest of researchers, who have studied the presence of convergence in emissions at sub-national level across the US states (Aldy 2007 ; Bulte et al 2007 ; Li et al 2014 ; Payne et al 2014 ; Apergis and Payne 2017 ; Apergis et al 2017 ), as well as across Chinese provinces (Huang and Meng 2013 ; Wang and Zhang 2014 ; Zhao et al 2015 ; Wu et al 2016 ; Yang et al 2016 ), using different methodologies and definitions of convergence.…”

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Greenhouse gas emissions convergence in Spain: evidence from the club clustering approach

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Garzón

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This study examines the convergence of greenhouse gas emissions per capita across the 19 Spanish regions using the Phillips-Sul club convergence approach over the period spanning from 1990 to 2017. The results indicate the presence of four clubs which converge to different equilibria in emissions per capita and three clubs in terms of income per capita, which involves different regions. These findings suggest that mitigation policies should explicitly consider the presence of different clubs of regions with different convergence paths in terms of emissions and income per capita and address the distributional effect of transfers across regions.

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“…Recent work also relies on some nonlinear unit root tests to examine the time series property of hazardous gas emissions. For instance, Payne et al [16] explored the stochastic convergence of SO 2 emissions per capita among U.S. states by conducting the residual augmented least Sustainability 2020, 12, 1781 3 of 33 Sustainability 2020, 12, 1781 32 of 33 system, which reduces waste discharge per unit of economic output, improves resource utilization efficiency, and achieves low resource consumption and less environmental pollution. Only when the SO 2 emissions per capita from cities reach convergence can the SO 2 emissions per capita from the country reach convergence.…”

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The Convergence of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Emissions Per Capita in China

Zhang

Zhao

2020

Sustainability

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As the third-largest SO 2 emitter in the world, China is facing mounting domestic and external pressure to tackle the increasingly serious SO 2 pollution. Figuring out the convergence and persistence of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions matters much for environmental policymakers in China. This study mainly utilizes the Fourier quantile unit root test to survey the convergence of the SO 2 emissions per capita in 74 cities of China during the period of December 2014 to June 2019, by conducting five traditional unit root tests and a quantile root unit test as a comparative analysis. The empirical results indicate that the SO 2 emissions per capita in 72 out of 74 cities in China are convergent in the sample period. The results also suggest that the unit root behavior of the SO 2 emissions per capita in these cities is asymmetrically persistent at different quantiles. For the cities with the convergent SO 2 emissions, the government should consider the asymmetric mean-reverting pattern of SO 2 emissions when implementing environmental protection policies at different stages. For Hefei and Nanjing, the local governments need to enact stricter environmental protection policies to control the emission of sulfur dioxide.Keywords: SO 2 emissions per capita; quantile unit root test; Fourier quantile unit root test; mean-reverting property Despite the initial achievement, SO 2 emissions in China still surpass the sum of the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the U.S. [1]. According to the statistics in China Statistical Yearbook (2019), by the year 2018, in China's total energy consumption, the share of fossil energy (including coal, crude oil, and natural gas) has remained above 85%, while the share of renewable energy (including hydropower, nuclear power, and wind power) has been below 15%. More specifically, in the year 2018, the consumption of coal represents 59% of the total level of energy consumption in China, which leads to the fact that the SO 2 emissions per capita have continuously increased. As the third-largest SO 2 emitter in the world, China is facing mounting domestic and external pressure to tackle the increasingly serious SO 2 pollution.High SO 2 emission is a tremendous threat to the environment change. It is one of the most important on-going anxieties for both emerging countries and developed countries. As a typical traditional contaminant, SO 2 brings many adverse effects to the human body, such as breathing difficulty, pulmonary edema, eye irritation, asthma attacks, cardiopulmonary diseases [2][3][4]. Meanwhile, SO 2 has considerable negative impacts on the ecological environment. For example, a high concentration of SO 2 will change the potential of hydrogen (pH) value of plants, which will lead to agricultural production reduction and forest death. Wei et al. [5] found that in 899 Chinese counties, the estimated cost of agricultural losses induced by SO 2 air pollution reached USD 1.43 billion. According to the data from the Ministry of Ecology and Envir...

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Convergence of per capita sulphur dioxide emissions across US states

Cited by 46 publications

References 31 publications

Conditional convergence in Australia's energy consumption at the sector level

Conditional convergence in Australia's energy consumption at the sector level

Greenhouse gas emissions convergence in Spain: evidence from the club clustering approach

The Convergence of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Emissions Per Capita in China

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