ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective

Hign, Dolores An; Gholami, Roya; Shirazi, Farid

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2017.01.001

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“…The EKC phenomenon states that increases in income cause increases in pollution; however, reaching a threshold level, more income leads to pollution reduction. For 30 years, the EKC has been tested using various control variables including energy consumption (Danish, Zhang, Wang, & Wang, ; Pata, ; Sarkodie, ); governance (Danish, Awais, &Wang, ); and ICT (Añón Higón et al, ; Shabani & Shahnazi, ). The relationship between income and CO 2 emissions can be hypothesised asH1a Real income has a positive effect on environmental pollution in high‐, middle‐, and low‐income countries.H2a The square of real income has a negative effect on environmental pollution in high‐, middle‐, and low‐income countries.…”

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“…The established findings recommend that increasing ICT reduces CO 2 emissions. Also, Añón Higón et al () estimated the non‐linear effect of ICT on environmental sustainability in both developing and developed countries. Empirical analysis infers that, with the development of the level of ICT, this mitigates CO 2 emissions in developed countries.…”

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“…The effect of ICT on the environment is either positive or negative, because ICT has two main effects on CO 2 emissions: first, use effect and, second, substitution effect. First, during the use effect, the production of ICT equipment, machinery, the extraction of rare earth elements, rebound effect of energy consumption, and e‐waste contribute to CO 2 emissions (Añón Higón, Gholami, & Shirazi, ). According to estimates, production and ICT use contribute 2% to 3% of global CO 2 emissions.…”

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The environmental impact of information and communication technology (ICT) has drawn increasing attention for two decades. The behaviour of ICT is positive towards economic growth; however, its environmental implications cannot be ignored. This empirical research explores the roles of ICT, economic growth, and energy consumption in environmental pollution across different regions from 1990 to 2015. Robust long‐run panel data estimation methods fully modified ordinary least square and dynamic ordinary least square and Driscoll–Kraay regression are applied. To summarise the results, ICT reduces the level of CO2 emissions across high‐ and middle‐income countries; however, contrary to this, ICT increases CO2 emissions in low‐income countries. Also, energy consumption is responsible for the increase in CO2 emissions in all income groups as expected. Finally, the environmental Kuznets curve is proved in all income groups. It is inferred that high‐ and middle‐income regions of the world have achieved a level of environmental sustainability in the significance of ICT, but this is not the case in low‐income countries.

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“…The variety of environmental perspectives on sustainability demonstrates varying emphasis on either altering the resource side or the demand side of the equation [74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83]. They reflect a spectrum from a dark green ecological perspective [84] to a light green perspective (see [85]) which draws on different epistemological assumptions and rationalities.…”

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Application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Solve Environmental Sustainability Problems: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis

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Most methodological areas assume common serious reflections to certify difficult study and publication practices, and, therefore, approval in their area. Interestingly, relatively little attention has been paid to reviewing the application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in environmental sustainability problems despite the growing number of publications in the past two decades. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to fill this gap by conducting a wide search in two main databases including Web of Science and Scopus to identify the studies which used SEM techniques in the period from 2005 to 2016. A critical analysis of these articles addresses some important key issues. On the basis of our results, we present comprehensive guidelines to help researchers avoid general pitfalls in using SEM. The results of this review are important and will help researchers to better develop research models based on SEM in the area of environmental sustainability.

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The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?

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Inclusive green growth, which considers green growth, inclusive growth and growth, is a sustainable development model that aims to pursue the comprehensive and harmonious growth of humans, the economy, society, and the environment. Against the backdrop of the pandemic as well as sluggish economic development, the global economy is endowed with a driving mission that may affect inclusive green growth. This research primarily discusses the influence of digital economy agglomeration on inclusive green growth and its transmission mechanism in China. Specifically, the slacks-based measure of directional distance functions (SBM-DDF) model was integrated with the global Malmquist-Luenberger index (GML) to calculate inclusive green growth at the city level for 282 cities in China during 2004-2019. A measurement system for the digital economy level was constructed, and the degree of digital economy agglomeration in each region was further measured through geographic concentration. Based on these analyses, this research points out that digital economy agglomeration exerts a positive influence on inclusive green growth. The transmission mechanism analysis indicates that inclusive green growth is influenced by digital economy agglomeration through energy consumption, environmental pollution, economic growth, human capital, industrial structure, and technological progress. Moreover, taking the "Broadband China" pilot policy as the starting point, a spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model was used to analyze the policy effect. The results suggest that the "Broadband China" policy is conducive to enhancing local inclusive green growth, while it inhibits inclusive green growth in neighboring cities.

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ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective

Cited by 478 publications

References 37 publications

Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO₂ emissions

Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO₂ emissions

Application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Solve Environmental Sustainability Problems: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis

The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?

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ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective

Cited by 478 publications

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Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions

Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions

Application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Solve Environmental Sustainability Problems: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis

The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?

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