Impacts of human capital, exports, economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions of a cross-sectionally dependent panel: Evidence from the newly industrialized countries (NICs)

Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur; Nepal, Rabindra; Alam, Khosrul

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.03.017

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“…The lower GDP also implies recession or depression in the country that's why people mainly focus on their basic needs and minimize their unnecessary utilizations, as a result, energy utilization is also minimized, consequently, carbon emission is reduced. The estimated coefficient of the square term of GDP turned out negative to positive which negate the presence of the EKC hypothesis, however, it indicates the U-shaped association between economic growth and carbon emissions and these finding are consistent with Aye and Edoja (2017), Ahmed et al (2017), Yao et al (2019), Halliru et al (2021), and Rahman et al (2021 As the result of study showed that China's BRI promote carbon emissions in BRI participating countries. To combat with carbon emission along the BRI route various efforts have been seen by the Chinese Government to mitigate climate change, reduce ecological effects, and protect the environment through building the green Belt and Road Initiative Assessment" which provides a safeguard measure for the environment.…”

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An Impact Evaluation of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Environmental Degradation

2022

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This study presents an attempt to scrutinize whether the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promotes environmental degradation in BRI countries using panel data of 130 countries during the period 1990 to 2018. For this, we used carbon emission as a proxy variable to estimate environmental degradation. Taking BRI as a quasi-natural experiment this paper used a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on environmental degradation. The finding consistently shows that BRI has a significant impact on environmental degradation. Furthermore, economic growth shows a negative correlation with carbon emission and square term of GDP per capita presents that there is no evidence for the existence of the environment Kuznet curve hypothesis, however, this study established a U-shaped association between economic growth and [Formula: see text] emission, whereas, energy consumption and population shows a positive impact on carbon emission and financial development and trade openness reduce the carbon emission and these findings are robust to estimation approaches. The findings imply that BRI demands special attention from the Chinese Government and BRI participating countries to establish a new policy mechanism to enforce the standards globally to protect the carbon emission. The findings also suggest that governments should promote environment-friendly energy consumption and supportive energy infrastructure to tackle the issue of environmental degradation.

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An Impact Evaluation of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Environmental Degradation

2022

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“…Subramaniam and Masron [49] analyzed the effect of education on the environment in 22 developing countries for 1990-2016 via the ARDL approach and disclosed that the positive effect of poverty on environmental degradation can decrease after a certain threshold of educational attainment. Furthermore, some researchers have investigated the relationship between human capital highly dependent on education and CO 2 emissions and found mixed findings [50][51][52][53][54][55] similar to the literature.…”

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Economic Freedom, Education and CO2 Emissions: A Causality Analysis for EU Member States

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Environmental sustainability is one of three pillars of sustainability. However, a significant worldwide deterioration in the environment has been experienced since the Industrial Revolution, but the efforts to protect the environment date back to the 1970s. In this context, many economic and non-economic factors underlying environmental degradation have been investigated until today, but the influence of economic freedom indicators and education on the environment have been relatively less analyzed and the researchers have mainly focused on the influence of economic and institutional variables on the environment. Therefore, this paper investigates the reciprocal interplay among economic freedom indicators, education, and environment in EU member states over the 2000–2018 term by using a causality test with cross-sectional dependency and heterogeneity and taking the research gap into consideration. The causality analysis indicates that market-oriented economic structure and education can be beneficial in combatting environmental degradation.

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“…Subsequently, many experts and scholars conducted indepth research on ecology and resources [16][17][18], technology and economy [19,20], and economic consumption [21][22][23] to obtain regional and representative results [24][25][26][27][28][29]. Many studies have illustrated a certain correlation between the regional economy and ecological environment [30][31][32], and in-depth demonstrations and research have been carried out to explore the internal relationship and law governing urbanization level and ecological efficiency [33][34][35][36]. Urbanization, urban spatial form, and expansion mode present different modes in different regions [8,37,38], and their complexity also differs, so pressure on the urban ecological environment is expected to be substantial [39][40][41][42].…”

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Dynamic Measurement Analysis of Urban Innovation Ability and Ecological Efficiency in China

Luo

2022

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To establish the evaluation index system of urbanization innovation level and ecological efficiency, the entropy method is applied to measure the comprehensive index of urbanization innovation level and ecological efficiency, the VAR model is established, and empirical measurement is used to study the internal relationship and dynamic development between urbanization innovation level and ecological efficiency. The empirical results show the following: (1) The overall development of the innovation level in 30 cities in China is uneven, there is a large gap between the urban innovation level in backwards areas and economically developed areas, and there is a certain coupling effect between the urban innovation level and ecological efficiency. (2) There is a long-term dynamic equilibrium relationship between the urban innovation level and ecological efficiency, which will exert certain pressure on the ecological environment in the process of urbanization. However, the continuous improvement of urbanization will have a positive impact on the improvement of the ecological environment. (3) The improvement of ecological efficiency will also promote the improvement of the urban innovation level. Therefore, this paper puts forwards policy suggestions to promote the harmonious development of urbanization and the ecological environment and provides a reference for realizing the balanced development of urbanization and ecological efficiency in China.

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Impacts of human capital, exports, economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions of a cross-sectionally dependent panel: Evidence from the newly industrialized countries (NICs)

Cited by 189 publications

References 64 publications

An Impact Evaluation of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Environmental Degradation

An Impact Evaluation of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Environmental Degradation

Economic Freedom, Education and CO2 Emissions: A Causality Analysis for EU Member States

Dynamic Measurement Analysis of Urban Innovation Ability and Ecological Efficiency in China

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