Environmental Kuznets curve and energy consumption in Malaysia: A cointegration approach

Saboori, Behnaz; Sulaiman, Jamalludin; Mohd, Saidatulakmal

doi:10.1080/15567249.2012.662264

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“…These results suggest that increase in the openness of Algeria is coupled with increase in the imports of less pollution-intensive goods and services. However, our result confirms the absence of consensus on the effects of trade openness on the environment; since the net effect is positive or negative depending on the level of development of countries [17], the factor endowment according to which as openness proceeds, developing countries would change to net exporters of pollution-intensive goods and deteriorate their environmental quality [16].…”

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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the Top Three Emitters in Africa

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2019

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This study analyses the cointegration and the causal relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and carbon emissions, using aggregate and disaggregate measures of energy consumption for Algeria, Egypt and South Africa over the period 1971-2015. Based on the ARDL, our results show that aggregate energy consumption and economic growth have positive and significant impacts on carbon dioxide (CO 2) both in the long and short run in those countries. At the disaggregated level, the main energy-related drives of carbon emissions are oil, electricity and coal consumption in Algeria, Egypt and South Africa, respectively. In addition, the implementation of the Toda-Yamamoto test for causality reveals the existence of several types of relationship between CO 2 emissions, economic growth and energy consumption.

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“…The first strand uses aggregate measures of energy consumption. For example, Boutabba [14], Heidari et al [15], Saboori et al [16] find that energy consumption has a positive and significant effect on CO 2 emissions. Authors of the second strand use disaggregated measures of primary energy consumption.…”

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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the Top Three Emitters in Africa

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Fotio²

2019

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“…Some scholars are in favor of the EKC hypothesis. For example, Saboori and Sulaiman (2013) did confirm it in Singapore and Thailand and Saboori et al (2016) revealed the same conclusion for the case of Malaysia. Our findings in Myanmar support this strand of an EKC literature.…”

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“…The most striking characteristic in earlier empirical studies is that they used the same sample of a country with different timespans and econometrics techniques but come to a completely different conclusion regarding the EKC hypothesis. One example is a study for Malaysia, where Saboori et al (2016) confirmed the presence of the EKC over the 1980-2008period, while Ali et al (2017, Begum et al (2015), and Gill et al (2018) presented the opposite outcome. A contradictory finding is observed in Vietnam (Tang and Tan 2015;Al-Mulali et al 2015) and in Turkey (Pata 2018;Soytas et al 2007).…”

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CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, and Economic Growth: New Evidence in the ASEAN Countries

2019

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The members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have made several attempts to adopt renewable energy targets given the economic, energy-related, environmental challenges faced by the governments, policy makers, and stakeholders. However, previous studies have focused limited attention on the role of renewable energy when testing the dynamic link between CO2 emissions, energy consumption and renewable energy consumption. As such, this study is conducted to test a common hypothesis regarding a long-run environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The paper also investigates the causal link between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, energy consumption, renewable energy, population growth, and economic growth for countries in the region. Using various time-series econometrics approaches, our analysis covers five ASEAN members (including Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand) for the 1971–2014 period where required data are available. Our results reveal no long-run relationship among the variables of interest in the Philippines and Thailand, but a relationship does exist in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The EKC hypothesis is observed in Myanmar but not in Indonesia and Malaysia. Also, Granger causality among these important variables varies considerably across the selected countries. No Granger causality among carbon emissions, energy consumption, and renewable energy consumption is reported in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Indonesia experiences a unidirectional causal effect from economic growth to renewable energy consumption in both short and long run and from economic growth to CO2 emissions and energy consumption. Interestingly, only Myanmar has a unidirectional effect from GDP growth, energy consumption, and population to the adoption of renewable energy. Policy implications have emerged based on the findings achieved from this study for each country in the ASEAN region.

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“…Most previous studies on the relationship between energy consumption, economic growth, and environmental quality have focused on a particular country in the ASEAN region, for example, for Cambodia (Ozturk and Al-Mulali, 2015), Indonesia (Shahbaz et al, 2013;Sugiawan and Managi, 2016), Malaysia (Ali et al, 2017a(Ali et al, , 2017bAng, 2008;Begum et al, 2015;Saboori et al, 2016;Saboori and Sulaiman, 2013a;Sulaiman and Abdul-Rahim, 2017;Tang and Tan, 2014),…”

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Renewable Energy and Population for Sustainable Development in the Southeast Asian Countries

2021

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BackgroundThe energy – environment – growth nexus has been examined for the Southeast Asian countries mainly using time series data. Few studies have been conducted using panel data. The roles of renewable energy and population have largely been ignored in previous studies. As such, this study is conducted to investigate a dynamic causal link between renewable energy usage, population, carbon emissions, and economic growth. Unlike previous panel data studies for the ASEAN region, a relatively new and advanced panel vector autoregressive model and the Granger non-causality test for heterogeneous panels are utilized using a sample of seven ASEAN countries for almost three decades since 1990.ResultsKey findings from this paper are as follows. First, energy consumption does lead to CO2 emissions - a 1 per cent increase in energy consumption will lead to an increase of about 0.34 per cent CO2 emissions which is lower than previously reported. Second, renewable energy usage explains a substantial proportion of the change in economic growth and energy consumption. Renewable energy also responds to population. Third, a bidirectional Granger causality between renewable energy, carbon emissions and population.ConclusionsWe argue that moderating population growth and extending renewable energy usage are important to achieve sustainable economic development in the ASEAN region.

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Environmental Kuznets curve and energy consumption in Malaysia: A cointegration approach

Cited by 67 publications

References 21 publications

Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the Top Three Emitters in Africa

Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the Top Three Emitters in Africa

CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, and Economic Growth: New Evidence in the ASEAN Countries

Renewable Energy and Population for Sustainable Development in the Southeast Asian Countries

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