Scale, composition, and technique effects through which the economic growth, foreign direct investment, urbanization, and trade affect greenhouse gas emissions

Liobikienė, Genovaitė; Butkus, Mindaugas

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2018.09.032

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“…(). In contrast, an increase in agricultural value added and renewable energy consumption declines carbon dioxide emissions by 0.49% and 0.36%—consistent with the aggregate energy model and Liobikienė and Butkus () and Rafiq et al . ().…”

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Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO₂ emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

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Ntiamoah

2019

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In line with the global target of reducing climate change and its impact, this study explored the causal relationship between CO2 emissions, modernized agriculture, trade openness, aggregate and disaggregate energy consumption in 14 African countries from 1990–2013 using a panel quantile estimation procedure. The empirical results showed that value addition to agricultural commodities declines CO2 emissions in countries with high pollution levels. The study revealed a positive nexus between CO2 emissions and energy consumption homogeneously distributed across quantiles. Trade openness was found to lower CO2 emissions in countries with lower and higher levels of environmental pollution. While fossil fuel energy consumption was found to exacerbate CO2 emissions, renewable energy consumption confirmed its mitigating effect on environmental pollution. The institution of climate‐smart agricultural options will sustainably increase productivity and income while adapting to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Diversification of energy technologies with clean and modern energy sources like renewables avoid the over‐dependence on fossil fuels for agricultural purposes. Trade policies can stimulate flows of technology and investment opportunities for specialization in production and economies of scale. Hence, the consideration of policies that boost agricultural sector productivity and create an efficient market for international trade in Africa will help in improving livelihoods.

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Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO₂ emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

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“…Copeland and Taylor studied the relationship among national income, pollution, and international trade by establishing a static model of north-south trade [9], and Grossman and Kruger first analyzed the impact mechanism of FDI on environmental pollution from three aspects: scale effect, composition effect, and technique effect [10]. Subsequent studies have implemented similar analysis based on the theoretical model and the impact mechanism [11][12][13].…”

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“…In particular, these studies have only focused on the total effects of IFDI on the host country's environment, and do not discuss the mechanism of IFDI on the environment [33]. Another stream of research has been undertaken on the mechanism investigation [13,15], but such literature has also ignored the possibilities of pollution diffusions across regions because of interregional economic activities.…”

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“…This paper selects the actually utilized value of foreign direct investment by each province and the overseas direct investment of each province to measure the flow of inward FDI and OFDI, respectively. The coordinated development levels of IFDI and OFDI are calculated by equations (13) and (14), with ① ∈ (0,0.4] usually being considered as low-degree coupling coordination; ② ∈ (0.4,0.5] being considered moderate coupling coordination; ③ ∈ (0.5,0.8] being considered high-degree coupling coordination; ④ ∈ (0.8,1] being considered extreme coupling coordination. In Figure 3, the vertical coordinate representing the coupling coordination level shows an imbalance phenomenon among regions for the coordinated development of China's two-way FDI: the eastern regions of the two-way FDI's coupling coordination level rank the highest, the central regions are in the middle, and the western regions are the lowest.…”

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This paper innovatively combines Inward Foreign Direct Investment (IFDI) and Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) as a measure of two-way FDI coordinated development to consider the coupling and coordination level of FDI. Under the analytical framework of Copeland and Taylor (1994), it introduces this new measure to investigate the effects of China’s carbon emissions during 2004–2016, using the spatial econometric model and the differential generalized method of moments. We find that China’s carbon emissions show significant spatial correlation characteristics and interregional diffusion, which indicates that regional coordinated cooperative governance is key to carbon emission mitigation in China, and that China’s two-way FDI coordinated development has presented a significant braking effect on carbon emissions during the research period. Furthermore, we decompose the effects of the two-way FDI on carbon emissions into three parts. This decomposition shows that the scale effect is positive, while both the composition and the technique effects are negative. The technique effect essentially dominates the emission reduction induced by the coordinated development of the two-way FDI.

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Scale, composition, and technique effects through which the economic growth, foreign direct investment, urbanization, and trade affect greenhouse gas emissions

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Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO₂ emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO₂ emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

Carbon Emission Effects of the Coordinated Development of Two-Way Foreign Direct Investment in China

Go‐for‐green policies: The role of finance and trade for sustainable development

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Scale, composition, and technique effects through which the economic growth, foreign direct investment, urbanization, and trade affect greenhouse gas emissions

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Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO2 emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO2 emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

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Panel heterogeneous distribution analysis of trade and modernized agriculture on CO₂ emissions: The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption

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