Environmental sustainability and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: A modified EKC hypothesis

Tenaw, Dagmawe; Beyene, Abebe D.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2021.110897

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“…The coefficient of the quadratic term is positive, and the coefficient of the cubic term is negative. Both are significant at a significance level of at least 5%, thus indicating that the quantity decoupling relationship between carbon emissions and economic growth in Zhejiang Province has an inverted "N" shape, which is inconsistent with the conclusions of an inverted U-shape inferred by Tenaw and other scholars [12,13]. In addition, the return of the energy consumption structure and the use of foreign capital are both significantly positive, thus indicating that the increase in coal consumption and the increase in the actual use of foreign capital will significantly promote the increase of CO 2 emissions.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Scholars have tested and enriched EKC theory by using some environmental indicators in different countries or regions. Tenaw et al [12] and Wang et al [13] conducted empirical studies on environmental data from 20 sub-Saharan African countries and energy consumption data from 29 provinces in mainland China. The researchers concluded that the EKC theory is valid.…”

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Research on the Decoupling Relationship between CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions and Economic Growth in Zhejiang Province

Chen¹,

Li²,

Yang³

2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality are public commitments made by the Chinese government to the world, and they are also the inherent requirements for achieving high-quality economic development in China's Provinces. On the basis of the data on Zhejiang Province from 2007 to 2019, this study employs the Tapio decoupling analysis method and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model to represent speed decoupling and quantity decoupling. Moreover, this research examines the decoupling relationship between Zhejiang Province's carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and economic growth. The analysis draws the following outcomes. (1) During the sample period, Zhejiang's economic aggregate and carbon emissions continued to grow, and the economic growth rate was significantly higher than the growth rate of CO 2 emissions. (2) The speed decoupling of CO 2 emission and economic growth in Zhejiang Province was in good condition, with weak decoupling at the provincial level and weak decoupling and strong decoupling at the city level. (3) The EKC of Zhejiang Province was in the shape of an inverted "N". From 2007 to 2019, Zhejiang's per capita GDP was between the two inflection points. Moreover, no quantity decoupling occurred between CO 2 emissions and economic growth.

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Section: Environmental Kuznets Curve In Zhejiang Provincecontrasting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Decoupling Relationship between CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions and Economic Growth in Zhejiang Province

Chen¹,

Li²,

Yang³

2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…The relationship between economy and environment has various forms; economic growth and environment are interactive systems, whereby environmental deterioration affects economic growth and income improvement. However, the EKC does not permit to establish an endogenous model to discuss the relationship between these two domains [ 12 ], although some supporters use data from different countries and regions to prove that there is an “inverted U-shaped” relationship among income level, economic growth and environmental pollution [ 13 , 14 ].…”

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Temporal–Spatial Evolution and Influencing Factors of Coordinated Development of the Population, Resources, Economy and Environment (PREE) System: Evidence from 31 Provinces in China

Cao

Zhang

Wei

et al. 2021

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Facing the increasingly severe friction among the domains of population, resources, economy and environment (PREE) in a system, theoretical guidance for the sustainable development of a PREE system can be obtained by exploring the coordinated development of a PREE system during its temporal–spatial evolution process. Based on the PREE data of 31 provinces in China from 2010 to 2019, this study uses a spatial measurement method to analyze the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of the PREE systems of China’s provinces. The results show that the overall coordination level of China’s provincial PREE systems fluctuated but improved from moderate imbalance to moderate coordination. However, the differences in the regional coordination level first decreased and then increased. The distribution characteristics of the system coordination level changed from “high in the east and low in the west” to “high in the west and low in the east”, resulting in the “inversion” phenomenon of the system coordination level. The spatial correlation of the coordination level of the PREE system among provinces and cities gradually increased. The coordination level of the PREE system in the eastern, central and western regions was noticeably different, accompanied by different degrees of polarization and showing different dynamic evolution trends. In the analysis of influencing factors, it was found that seven factors, such as per capita GDP, the proportion of environmental pollution control investment to GDP and per capita energy production, promoted the coordinated development of China’s PREE system to varying degrees. The coordinated and stable development of China’s PREE system should be adjusted and optimized from the perspectives of different regions, scales and systems.

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“…(2020) ; Alsayed and Malik (2020) ; Halliru et al. (2020) ; Sisay and Kotosz (2020) ; Teame and Habte (2020) ; Tenaw and Beyene (2021) are some of the EKC studies recently conducted in the African context. Nevertheless, there has been no consensus regarding the findings on the EKC relationship at both country and cross-country levels.…”

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Getting into the details: structural effects of economic growth on environmental pollution in Ethiopia

Tenaw

2021

Heliyon

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Reduced-form approaches are like a ‘ black-box ’ which do not explicitly display the possible channels (exact forces) through which growth may influence the environment. Accordingly, this study aims to provide some empirical evidence regarding the underlying structural effects of growth on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), Methane (CH 4 ), and Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) in Ethiopia over 1975–2017. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is employed and the results confirm that the scale effect of growth increases all types of emissions in both the short run and long run. And, the composition effect has a long-run monotonically increasing relationship with CO 2 emissions and a non-increasing pattern with CH 4 and N 2 O emissions. On the other hand, a generally decreasing (for CO 2 emissions) and an Inverted-U shaped (for CH 4 and N 2 O emissions) technique effects of growth are obtained. This indicates that while growth through its technique effect reduces CO 2 even at a lower level of income, the country needs to achieve a higher income level for the technique effect to be effective in reducing CH 4 and N 2 O emissions. Fossil fuel energy appears to be the main driver of environmental pollution. Furthermore, the Toda-Yamamoto Granger causality test indicates a unidirectional causality from the three structural components of growth to all emissions. The findings, generally, suggest that a self-correcting mechanism in the growth process may not automatically reduce environmental pollution. Quite simply, to achieve environmentally sustainable economic growth, the technique effect should be sufficiently strong to offset the scale effect.

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Environmental sustainability and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: A modified EKC hypothesis

Cited by 200 publications

References 54 publications

Research on the Decoupling Relationship between CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions and Economic Growth in Zhejiang Province

Research on the Decoupling Relationship between CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions and Economic Growth in Zhejiang Province

Temporal–Spatial Evolution and Influencing Factors of Coordinated Development of the Population, Resources, Economy and Environment (PREE) System: Evidence from 31 Provinces in China

Getting into the details: structural effects of economic growth on environmental pollution in Ethiopia

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