The renewable energy consumption-environmental degradation nexus in Top-10 polluted countries: Fresh insights from quantile-on-quantile regression approach

Sharif, Arshian; Mishra, Shekhar; Sinha, Avik; Jiao, Zhilun; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Afshan, Sahar

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.149

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“…Similarly, from Table 4 , the non-linearity among series is further endorsed by BDS (1996) test, where the null hypothesis of non-linearity is accepted in both series across all States. Based on the JB test and BDS test of nonlinearity, it is evident that both variables having a nonlinearity in all states, therefore, the estimations of quantiles are recommended following ( Shahbaz et al, 2018 ; Mishra et al, 2019 ; Sharif et al, 2019a ; Sharif et al 2019b , 2020 ; Chang et al, 2020 ; Arain et al, 2020 ).…”

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Asymmetric link between environmental pollution and COVID-19 in the top ten affected states of US: A novel estimations from quantile-on-quantile approach

Razzaq

Sharif

Aziz

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Environmental Research

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This study draws the link between COVID-19 and air pollution (ground ozone O 3 ) from February 29, 2020 to July 10, 2020 in the top 10 affected States of the US. Utilizing quantile-on-quantile (QQ) estimation technique, we examine in what manner the quantiles of COVID-19 affect the quantiles of air pollution and vice versa. The primary findings confirm overall dependence between COVID-19 and air pollution. Empirical results exhibit a strong negative effect of COVID-19 on air pollution in New York, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania; especially at medium to higher quantiles, while New Jersey, Illinois, Arizona, and Georgia show strong negative effect mainly at lower quantiles. Contrarily, COVID-19 positively affects air pollution in Pennsylvania at extreme lower quantiles. On the other side, air pollution predominantly caused to increase in the intensity of COVID-19 cases across all states except lower quantiles of Massachusetts, and extreme higher quantiles of Arizona and New Jersey, where this effect becomes less pronounced or negative. Concludingly, a rare positive fallout of COVID-19 is reducing environmental pressure, while higher environmental pollution causes to increase the vulnerability of COVID-19 cases. These findings imply that air pollution is at the heart of chronic diseases, therefore the state government should consider these asymmetric channels and introduce appropriate policy measures to reset and control atmospheric emissions.

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Asymmetric link between environmental pollution and COVID-19 in the top ten affected states of US: A novel estimations from quantile-on-quantile approach

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Sharif

Aziz

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“…This is substantiated by the positive impact of FDI on CO 2 emissions, which signifies the negative impact of FDI on environmental quality. Therefore, the policy design in these nations must look into the public property rights strictly, alongside implementation and incentivization of cleaner technologies in the existing and potential production processes (Roy et al, 2018;Sharif et al, 2020b). This can be possible only by means of rising level of environmental awareness through the revision of curriculum and improvement of education.…”

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How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries

Zafar

Shahbaz

Sinha³

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Designing a comprehensive policy framework for ascertaining sustainable development is a problem faced by most of the countries around the globe, and the developed nations are no exception to that. Environmental awareness-oriented policy design for achieving sustainable development goals is a challenge for the developed nations, and there lies the contribution of this study. This study analyzes the impact of renewable energy on carbon emissions, in presence of education, natural resource abundance, foreign direct investment, and economic growth for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries over the period of 1990-2015. Second generation methodologies are adapted for the empirical estimation. The results show the stimulating role of renewable energy consumption in shaping environmental quality. Education declines carbon emissions. Natural resource abundance and foreign direct investment deteriorate environmental quality. Moreover, the time series individual country analysis also confirms that renewable energy has a positive impact on economic growth. The heterogeneous causality analysis reveals the feedback effect, i.e., bidirectional causal associations among carbon emissions, education, and renewable energy consumption. This empirical evidence suggests that countries should increase investment in education and renewable energy sectors and plan for research and development in renewable energy for ensuring environmental sustainability.

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“…Others believe that the future development of renewable energy will greatly affect regional economic development [ 16 ]. With the continuous development of the industrial economy, renewable energy is considered to be one of the main solutions to the current environmental and energy consumption problems [ 17 , 18 , 19 ]. The development of renewable energy has led to many related studies such as the consumption of renewable energy and its influencing factors.…”

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Evolution of Renewable Energy in BRI Countries: A Combined Econometric and Decomposition Approach

Dong

Pan

2020

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The development of renewable energy is an important cooperation theme among countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI countries). Through map description, we first explore the changes in renewable energy consumption in BRI countries. Then, β-convergence is employed to examine the development direction of renewable energy consumption in BRI countries. Finally, based on the expanded Kaya equation, we decompose the factors effecting renewable energy consumption into energy structure effect, energy intensity effect, low-carbon economic effect, carbon emission effect, population distribution effect and population effect. The Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) is utilized to calculate the contribution of each factor to renewable energy consumption in the expanded Kaya equation. Our research reaches the following conclusions: (1) β-convergence exists in renewable energy consumption among BRI countries, indicating that it will converge to a relatively stable level, and countries with low renewable energy consumption will increase their renewable energy consumption with a higher convergence rate to chase the countries with high renewable energy consumption. (2) Energy structure effect makes a positive impact on renewable energy consumption, and is the main contributor to renewable energy consumption. (3) The energy intensity effect makes a negative contribution to renewable energy consumption, and the negative impact has deepened in recent years. (4) Both the low-carbon economic effect and the carbon emission effect have positive impacts on renewable energy consumption. Our research not only provides a description of the experience of developing renewable energy for BRI countries, but also makes reference to other organizations.

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The renewable energy consumption-environmental degradation nexus in Top-10 polluted countries: Fresh insights from quantile-on-quantile regression approach

Cited by 271 publications

References 70 publications

Asymmetric link between environmental pollution and COVID-19 in the top ten affected states of US: A novel estimations from quantile-on-quantile approach

Asymmetric link between environmental pollution and COVID-19 in the top ten affected states of US: A novel estimations from quantile-on-quantile approach

How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries

Evolution of Renewable Energy in BRI Countries: A Combined Econometric and Decomposition Approach

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