The nexus between road transport intensity and road-related CO2 emissions in G20 countries: an advanced panel estimation

Habib, Yasir; Xia, Enjun; Hashmi, Shujahat Haider; Ahmed, Zahoor

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-14731-7

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“…In this case, the scale effect associated with increased demand for transport services dominates the composition and technique effects, causing CO 2 emissions to surge along with economic development. Our results regarding the transport sector are consistent with the findings of Habib et al (2021) and in G20 countries and China, respectively. However, our results contrast with the findings of Kharbach & Chfadi (2017) and Godil et al (2020), which show a negative relationship between income and CO 2 emissions in the transportation sector of the Morocco and US economies, respectively, implying that the transportation systems of these countries are fuel-efficient with clean energy use.…”

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Investigating whether the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis holds for sectoral CO2 emissions: evidence from developed and developing countries

Htike

Shrestha

Kakinaka

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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Section: Ardl Estimationsupporting

confidence: 91%

Investigating whether the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis holds for sectoral CO2 emissions: evidence from developed and developing countries

Htike

Shrestha

Kakinaka

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Perhaps, Grossman and Krueger (1991) are the first who examines the dynamic effects of economic growth on environmental quality in order to check the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). As per the theoretical underpinnings of the EKC hypothesis, economic growth firstly degrades the environment but neutralizes the adverse environmental impacts beyond a threshold level of growth (Murshed 2021a(Murshed , 2021bMurshed et al 2021d).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Energy is acknowledged to play an essential role in cooling, heating, determining the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), and industrial production (Bildirici and Gokmenoglu 2020). As a result, the inextricable linkages between energy use and these macroeconomic variables can be presumed to impose environmental consequences (Habib et al 2021;Murshed and Tanha 2021). On the other hand, terrorism is also hypothesized to affect both socioeconomic and environmental attributes of a particular nation.…”

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The asymmetric associations between foreign direct investment inflows, terrorism, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: a tale of two shocks

Chishti

Ahmed

Murshed

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Foreign direct investments can exert ambiguous effects on the environmental quality of the host economies. At the same time, terrorism is a worldwide phenomenon that affects human life, FDI inflows, economic growth, and, most importantly, environmental well-being. Hence, it can be expected that there are relationships between terrorism, foreign direct investment inflows, and carbon dioxide emissions. However, in the previous literature, less attention has been given to explore these nexuses. In addition, the possible nonlinearities in data are also mostly ignored in the preceding related studies. Against this backdrop, this paper explores the linear and nonlinear influences of terrorism and foreign direct investment inflows on carbon dioxide emissions, controlling for energy consumption and economic growth within the model, on carbon dioxide emissions in the context of ten global economies that are most impacted by terrorism. To this end, we used the data from 1973 to 2016 and deployed the linear and non-linear autoregressive distributed lag methods to scrutinize the environmental impacts of the explanatory variables of concern. The results confirmed the presence of non-linearities in the relationships between terrorism, inflows of foreign direct investments, and carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the positive shocks to terrorism and foreign direct investment inflows significantly deteriorate the environment with a dominating effect. Unlike the previous studies, this current study validates the pollution haven hypothesis for the sample economies. Energy consumption and economic growth were also evidenced to exacerbate the carbon dioxide emission levels in all selected countries. Based on these results, we recommend that our sample economies should focus on promoting education, employment, economic stability, and public awareness to eradicate terrorism which, in turn, can mitigate the emissions of carbon dioxide further. In addition, stringent environmental regulations on foreign direct investment inflows are required to reduce the adverse environmental effects of such sources of foreign finance. Furthermore, the international firms should be encouraged to invest in cleaner technologies by offering them tax benefits and other financial incentives.

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“…As far as the environmental impacts of energy consumption are concerned, it is widely acknowledged in the literature that energy consumption is inextricably associated with environmental well-being (Ma et al 2021;Murshed and Alam 2021;Nathaniel et al 2021a, b;Xue et al 2021). In this regard, the existing studies have predominantly documented evidence of unclean energy consumption boosting CO 2 emissions while greater use of cleaner energy resources is said to be effective in reducing the emissions (Murshed 2018;Ahmed et al 2019;Murshed 2021a, b;Habib et al 2021). In a relevant study on 16 European nations, Bekun et al (2019) concluded that enhancing renewable energy use in Europe can be effective in mitigating the CO 2 emissions figures of the selected nations.…”

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Revisiting the energy-economy-environment relationships for attaining environmental sustainability: evidence from Belt and Road Initiative countries

Shakib

Hou

Rauf

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious development project initiated by the Chinese government to foster economic progress worldwide. In this regard, this study aims to investigate the dynamics of energy, economy, and environment among 42 BRI developing countries using an annual frequency panel dataset from 1995 to 2019. The major findings from the econometric analyses revealed that higher levels of energy consumption, economic growth, population growth rate, and FDI inflows exhibit adverse environmental consequences by boosting the CO 2 emission figures of the selected developing BRI member nations. However, it is interesting to observe that exploiting renewable energy sources, which are relatively cleaner compared to the traditionally-consumed fossil fuels, and fostering agricultural sector development can significantly improve environmental wellbeing by curbing the emission levels further. On the other hand, financial development is found to be ineffective in explaining the variations in the CO 2 emission figures of the selected countries. Besides, the causality analysis shows that higher energy consumption, FDI inflows, and agricultural development cause environmental pollution by boosting CO 2 emissions. However, economic growth, technology development, financial progress, and renewable energy consumption are evidenced to exhibit bidirectional causal associations with CO 2 emissions. In line with these findings, several relevant policies can be recommended for the BRI to be environmentally sustainable.

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The nexus between road transport intensity and road-related CO2 emissions in G20 countries: an advanced panel estimation

Cited by 44 publications

References 167 publications

Investigating whether the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis holds for sectoral CO2 emissions: evidence from developed and developing countries

Investigating whether the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis holds for sectoral CO2 emissions: evidence from developed and developing countries

The asymmetric associations between foreign direct investment inflows, terrorism, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: a tale of two shocks

Revisiting the energy-economy-environment relationships for attaining environmental sustainability: evidence from Belt and Road Initiative countries

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