“…Additionally, substantial literature is evidence of environmental degradation and its determinants. For example, biomass energy (Mahmood et al, 2019), renewable energy (Dogan and Ozturk, 2017), financial development (Xu et al, 2018), imported technologies (Danish, Wang and Wang, 2017), deforestation (Arshad et al, 2020), public-private investment in energy (Shahbaz et al, 2020), natural resources (Anees et al, 2019), and urbanization and renewable energy consumption (Danish and wang, 2019). However, the attention on the linkage of institutional quality and environmental degradation is limited.…”