Does renewable energy consumption and health expenditures decrease carbon dioxide emissions? Evidence for sub-Saharan Africa countries

Apergis, Nicholas; Jebli, Mehdi Ben; Youssef, Slim Ben

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2018.05.043

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“…There is an extremely wide-ranging literature on the relationship between renewable energy and carbon emission. For detailed literature data, the studies conducted by Apergis et al (2018), Dogan and Seker (2016), and Liu (2017) 2 should be referred to. Although some studies have reported just the opposite (Dogan and Seker 2016), most of the studies suggest that renewable energy reduces carbon emissions.…”

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“…When fossil fuels are used, they leave a certain amount of residue in the form of solid substances and gases. This residue, which is caused by fossil fuels, cannot be reused in any way; and therefore, it causes environmental pollution (Dogan and Seker 2016;Apergis et al 2018). In this respect, satisfying the increasing energy need from renewable resources such geothermal, solar, wind, biomass and biofuels will help to keep the pollution of the sources at the lowest level for sustainable development.…”

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Renewable energy, non-renewable energy and sustainable development

Güney

2019

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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The purpose of the present study is to analyse the effects of renewable energy and nonrenewable energy on sustainable development. This study is pioneering in this respect because it analyses the effect of renewable energy on adjusted net savings, which is a good sustainable development variable. For this purpose, the data of 40 developed and 73 developing countries were included. According to the estimation results obtained in the study, renewable energy has a positive and statistically significant effect on sustainable development both in developed countries and in developing countries. The impact of renewable energy on sustainable development is greater than the impact of non-renewable energy. In this respect, as the renewable energy amount increases, the level of sustainable development increases. According to these results, the fact that countries use renewable energy more than non-renewable energy sources is extremely important in terms of making progress towards sustainability of development and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Renewable energy, non-renewable energy and sustainable development

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2019

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“…From an economic point of view, if the glass collected from the La Liga Peque Recicladores program were sold on the market, the income generated could lead to self-financing of this educational activity; similar paper recycling education programs have already adopted this method of self-funding [29]. Furthermore, this glass recycling program is not only capable of generating income, but it could also lead to economic savings in the high healthcare and environmental costs resulting from pollution [63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73]. Therefore, governments should pay attention to the link between health and the environment when formulating public policies; likewise, it is incumbent upon the private industry to develop socially responsible behaviors.…”

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Effects of an Educational Glass Recycling Program against Environmental Pollution in Spain

Aguilar-Jurado

Madrona

Ortega-Dato

et al. 2019

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In this article, we analyzed the effects of an educational glass recycling program on primary schools and their students in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). A sample of 89 schools, with 20,710 elementary students, was selected by simple random sampling. For the statistical analysis, descriptive techniques (frequencies and statistics), parametric (One Way ANOVA test), and non-parametric (Chi-Square test) inferential techniques were used, with a 5% significance level (p < 0.05). The program's results showed that 153,576.3 kg of glass (with a value of 17,064.03 €) were recycled. Significant determinants of glass recycling were: School category (p = 0.043), previous environmental/recycling education (p = 0.046), geographic location of school (p = 0.030), gender (p = 0.007), and academic year (p < 0.05). With the program, students learned the importance of glass recycling, obtained a greater knowledge of and habits related to the same, acquired favorable attitudes towards the environment, and promoted glass recycling in their social circles. We conclude that environmental education about glass recycling has positive effects on glass recycling attitudes and behaviors in elementary school students and may be used as a measure to combat the problem of environmental pollution.

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“…Numerous number of researchers [1][2][3], have examined the impact of economic growth, energy use and population on carbon emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The relationship between economic growth, energy use, population and environmental pollution has been a topic of concern for several years [27,28].…”

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“…The impact of economic growth and energy use on carbon emissions is evolving into a serious topic among researchers [1][2][3]. Factors like increase in population, energy use, economic growth, demand for goods and services have contributed to the increase of carbon-dioxide emission in Sub Saharan Africa [4][5][6][7], and reiterate that energy use for economic growth, has led to massive production of carbon emissions which have led to climate change and increase in respiratory diseases and asthma.…”

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Impact of Economic Growth, Energy Use and Population Growth on Carbon Emissions in Sub-Sahara Africa

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Du²,

Hongo³

et al. 2018

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The study examines the impact of economic growth, energy use and population growth on carbon emissions in sub Saharan Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Benin, Togo and Mauritius for the period of 1990-2014. The study employed unit root test, co-integration test, VECM (Vector Error Correction Model) and FMOLS (Fully Modified Ordinary Least-Square) as methodologies to model the causality and linear relationships amongst the variables. The VECM was used to identify the long-run causality and asymptotic convergence among the variables. The results reveal that an increase in energy use and population growth by 1% would cause an increase in CO 2 (Carbon Dioxide) concentration by 0.08% and 0.22% correspondingly, whereas in the long-run 1% increase of energy use increases economic output by 0.09%. As the economy grows without contributing to carbon emissions, governments should invest more in renewable energy. Governments should also come up with policies to regulate population growth and fossil energy use.

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Does renewable energy consumption and health expenditures decrease carbon dioxide emissions? Evidence for sub-Saharan Africa countries

Cited by 282 publications

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Renewable energy, non-renewable energy and sustainable development

Renewable energy, non-renewable energy and sustainable development

Effects of an Educational Glass Recycling Program against Environmental Pollution in Spain

Impact of Economic Growth, Energy Use and Population Growth on Carbon Emissions in Sub-Sahara Africa

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