Exploring the nature of EKC hypothesis in Asia’s top emitters: role of human capital, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption

Jena, Pabitra Kumar; Mujtaba, Aqib; Joshi, D P Priyadarshi; Šatrović, Elma; Adeleye, Bosede Ngozi

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-21551-w

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“…The results of the analysis demonstrate the validity of the inverted U-shaped EKC hypothesis for selected countries. Jena et al (2022) used an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for panel estimation to test EKC validation in China, India, and Japan over the 1980-2016 data range. The recorded findings validate U-shaped EKCs in India and Japan, and an inverted U-shaped EKC in China.…”

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RETRACTED: A dynamic relationship between renewable energy consumption, non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions: Evidence from Asian emerging economies

Zhang

Yin

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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This study aims to explore the relationship between renewable energy consumption, non-renewable energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth in China, India, Bangladesh, Japan, South Korea and Singapore using panel Augmented Mean Group (AMG) estimation techniques over the period 1975–2020. The results of the analysis show that renewable energy consumption, non-renewable energy consumption, employed labor force, and capital formation contribute significantly to long-run economic growth. The study also found that non-renewable energy consumption significantly increased long-term carbon emissions, while renewable energy consumption significantly reduced long-term carbon emissions. GDP and GDP3 have a significant positive impact on environmental degradation, while GDP2 has a significant negative impact on environmental degradation, thereby validating the N-type EKC hypothesis in selected emerging economies. The countrywise AMG strategy records no EKC in India and Bangladesh, an inverted U-shaped EKC in China and Singapore, and an N-shaped EKC in Japan and South Korea. Empirical evidence from the Dumitrescue-Hurlin (2012) panel causality test shows that there is a two-way causality between renewable energy consumption and economic growth, supporting the feedback hypothesis. Strategically, empirical evidence suggests that higher renewable energy is a viable strategy for addressing energy security and reducing carbon emissions to protect the environment and promote future economic growth in selected Asian countries.

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RETRACTED: A dynamic relationship between renewable energy consumption, non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions: Evidence from Asian emerging economies

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Yin

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…These findings outline that a higher level of employment to population ratio increase carbon intensity more in countries that have median or below median carbon intensity. The positive impact of population on environmental degradation is pertinent to some previous studies (Rehman et al, 2021;Verbič et al, 2021;Jena et al, 2022;Satrovic and Adedoyin, 2022;Sultana et al, 2022). The negative trend shows that the impact of the employment to population ratio on carbon intensity decreases when moving from the lower to the upper quantiles.…”

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How does financial inclusion affect environmental degradation in the six oil exporting countries? The moderating role of information and communication technology

Damrah

Šatrović

Shawtari

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Progress in financial inclusion has played a major role in economic development and poverty reduction. However, the environmental impact of financial inclusion calls for urgent implementation of environmental strategies to mitigate climate change. Financial inclusion forces the policies of developed countries to advance and not affect the present and future development of developing countries. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the direct effects of information and communication technology (ICT) usage on environment as well as its moderating role on the association between financial inclusion and environmental degradation for six oil exporting countries (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kuwait, Canada, and the United States), using annual panel data from 1995 to 2019. We also analyze the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) phenomenon for the entire sample, as well as the role of energy consumption and population. Employing the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) with fixed effects, this study supported the existence of EKC phenomenon here as linkage amid human development index and carbon intensity. We find that energy consumption significantly increases carbon intensity. The empirical results showed that the application of internet- and mobile use as indicators of ICT usage lead to environmental preservation in the six oil exporting economies. Also, we observe that financial inclusion has mitigating effects on pollutant emissions, contributing to environmental preservation. Interaction between ICT usage and financial inclusion jointly reduces carbon intensity in all quantile distributions. A robustness check using an alternative proxy of the financial inclusion also confirms that ICT usage significantly and negatively moderates the association between financial inclusion and carbon intensity. Based on the findings of this study, the selected oil exporting countries should integrate financial inclusion with environmental policies to reduce carbon intensity.

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“…In the above equations, p j = n j /n, s j ¼ n j y j =n y; D jh represents the relative influence of the coupling coordination degree of economic zone j and economic zone h, as shown in (17); d jh is the difference of the coupling coordination degree, as shown in (18); p jh is the hypervariable first order, as shown in ( 19) is shown; F j and F h are the cumulative density distribution functions in the region of economic zone j and economic zone h.…”

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“…Second, research on the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions. A large number of scholars have investigated whether the relationship between the two is consistent with the hypothesis of "EKC" [11][12][13][14][15][16][17], and many others have investigated the interaction between the two. For example, Chen J [18] studied the two-way causality between urban CO2 emissions and economic growth, and the empirical results showed that economic growth is the Granger causality of CO2 emissions; the implementation of carbon reduction measures does not hinder economic growth.…”

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Coupling coordination development of energy-economy-carbon emissions in China under the background of “double carbon”

Dong

Zhang

2022

PLoS ONE

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Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2019, this paper measured the coupling coordination development of energy-economy-carbon emissions and investigated its regional differences and spatial convergence. The research methods in this paper include entropy weight technique method for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution, coupling coordination degree model, Dagum Gini coefficient and decomposition method, Moran’s I index, σ convergence model and β convergence model. The study found that the coupling coordination degree of energy-economy-carbon emissions in China has been continuously improved and has obvious regional and stage characteristics, but it is still on the verge of imminent disorder; the overall difference in the coupling coordination degree of energy-economy-carbon emissions shows a decreasing and then increasing trend, the main source of which is inter-regional differences; the coupling coordination degree of energy-economy-carbon emissions has a positive spatial correlation; except for the Southern Coastal Economic Zone and the Middle Yangtze River Economic Zone, there is no significant σ-convergence and β-convergence in the coupling coordination degree of energy-economy-carbon emissions system in other economic zones; the coupling coordination degree of energy-economy-carbon emissions changes fastest in the Middle Yangtze River Economic Zone. The innovation of this paper is to measure the coupling coordination degree of energy-economy-carbon emissions and to analyse its regional differences and spatial effects. It is of great practical significance to promote the coupling coordination development and regional balanced development of energy-economy-carbon emissions in China under the background of "dual carbon".

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Exploring the nature of EKC hypothesis in Asia’s top emitters: role of human capital, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption

Cited by 69 publications

References 116 publications

RETRACTED: A dynamic relationship between renewable energy consumption, non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions: Evidence from Asian emerging economies

RETRACTED: A dynamic relationship between renewable energy consumption, non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions: Evidence from Asian emerging economies

How does financial inclusion affect environmental degradation in the six oil exporting countries? The moderating role of information and communication technology

Coupling coordination development of energy-economy-carbon emissions in China under the background of “double carbon”

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