Perceptions of GHG emissions and renewable energy sources in Europe, Australia and the USA

Abstract

People’s sentiments and perceptions of greenhouse gas emission and renewable energy are important information to understand their reaction to the planned mitigation policy. Therefore, this research analyzes people’s perceptions of greenhouse gas emissions and their preferences for renewable energy resources using a sample of Twitter data. We first identify themes of discussion using semantic text similarity and network analysis. Next, we measure people’s interest in renewable energy resources based on the mentioned rate in Twitter and search interest in Google trends. Then, we measure people’s sentiment toward these resources and compare the interest with sentiments to identify opportunities for policy improvement. The results indicate a minor influence of governmental assemblies on Twitter discourses compared to a very high influence of two renewable energy providers amounts to more than 40% of the tweeting activities related to renewable energy. The search interest analysis shows a slight shift in people’s interest in favor of renewable energy. The interest in geothermal energy is decreasing while interest in biomass energy is increasing. The sentiment analysis shows that biomass energy has the highest positive sentiments while solar and wind energy have higher interest. Solar and wind energy are found to be the two most promising sources for the future energy transition. Our study implies that governments should practice a higher influence on promoting awareness of the environment and converging between people’s interests and feasible energy solutions. We also advocate Twitter as a source for collecting real-time data about social preferences for environmental policy input.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Does green finance mitigate the effects of climate variability: role of renewable energy investment and infrastructure

“…Similarly, the choice of econometric methods, the chosen countries and their economic structure, and the study period are some of the factors affecting mixed empirical findings. This study analyses previous studies, on a group of countries, such as Asia Pacific countries (Y. Zhang et al 2022a , b ), panel data for 42 countries (Xu et al 2021 ), panel data from 97 countries worldwide (Iqbal et al 2019b ), Ghana (Iqbal et al 2019a ), high-income countries (bassem et al 2022 ), lower income countries (X. Liu et al 2021a , b ), South Asian countries (Ahad et al 2021 ; Wen et al 2022 ), (OECD) countries (Zaidi et al 2021 ), and European countries (Huang et al 2021 ) confirm the negative correlation between financial variable and carbon emissions with different degrees, using different research methods. Although the relationship between CO 2 and green finance is easily seen in the literature, none of the studies uses quantile regression approaches to empirically examine this relationship.…”

“…Sustainable renewable energy development can be attained by attracting private investors, as well as creating synergy between the state and private sectors through green finance, according to Li et al, ( 2022 ). A recent study by Zhang et al ( 2022a , b ) found that as the green energy financing market expands in India, more green projects will be funded, increasing the share of green energy in India’s overall power mix. As Yao and Tang ( 2021 ) argued, green financing has a direct and positive impact on renewable energy development through financial market mechanisms and state legislation.…”

“…Investing in green securities ensures the long-term health of the green economy. It is critical for the well-being of society as a whole that businesses use environmentally friendly materials in their manufacturing processes (W. Iqbal et al 2021a , b ; H. Zhang et al 2022a , b ). For the economic well-being of their economies, developed countries like China have put in place safe financing approaches, including companies that have appropriate strategies to support healthcare insurance and other health implications.…”

Renewable Energy: Sources, Integration and Application: Review Article

“…Onshore or offshore, they are located in windy regions. Since pollutant emissions are a key negative of traditional fossilfuel-based generating, wind energy's efficient use is particularly desirable in this regard [17].…”

“…Les expériences ont été réalisées dans un semicontinuous batch reactor with a 5 liter capacity, which was fed daily. Digestion took place at room temperature for 25 days at a constant hydraulic retention time [17].…”