The role of information and communication technologies in mitigating carbon emissions: evidence from panel quantile regression

Anser, Muhammad Khalid; Ahmad, Munir; Khan, Muhammad Azhar; Zaman, Khalid; Nassani, Abdelmohsen A.; Askar, Sameh; Abro, Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi; Kabbani, Ahmad

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-12114-y

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“…The results are aligned with Chen et al (2019). Additionally, high-technology exports (lnhtexpt) are found to be positive to enhance carbon emissions, as verified by Aldakhil et al (2019) and Anser et al (2021).…”

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Evaluation of the Effects of Urbanization on Carbon Emissions: The Transformative Role of Government Effectiveness

Chen

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Energy Res.

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With the rapid economic growth and urbanization, the environment is continuously degrading, and the problem of global warming caused by increasing carbon emissions has been highly highlighted. Utilizing panel data of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1996 to 2018, this study aims to evaluate the effects of urbanization on carbon emissions and explore the transformative role of government effectiveness. To produce more accurate estimates, the approach of the feasible generalized least squares is employed, and the heteroskedastic and correlated errors are considered due to the significant differences among the OECD countries. The results suggest an inverted U-shaped nexus between urbanization and carbon emissions, and for most OECD countries, the enhancement of urbanization is positive to increase carbon emissions. Besides, urbanization positively contributes to government effectiveness. As a transformator, government effectiveness negatively contributes to the effects of urbanization on increasing carbon emissions. That is, with the advancement of government effectiveness, the positive role of urbanization in emitting more carbon dioxide will be transformed to help the OECD countries mitigate carbon emissions. Hence, the findings are informative for policymakers to take effective measures to accelerate the process of urbanization and formulate active measures to improve government effectiveness, thereby decreasing carbon emissions and further mitigating global warming.

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Section: Results Of Baseline Estimationssupporting

confidence: 59%

Evaluation of the Effects of Urbanization on Carbon Emissions: The Transformative Role of Government Effectiveness

Chen

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Finally, Anser et al (2021) examined the impact of ICT on carbon emissions with panel quantile regression method and found positive link between both variables.…”

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ICT and education as determinants of environmental quality: The role of financial development in selected Asian countries

Zafar

Zaidi

Mansoor

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…In the new round of global technological and industrial change, the popularization of information technology has an important marginal utility (Vu 2011;Anser et al 2021). The digital economy is taking information technology as the core to provide new impetus for the intelligent management of the environment (Kjaer et al 2018;Usman et al 2021).…”

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Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions: evidence from China

Yang

Ran

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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As a new production factor, digitalization plays a vital role in society, economy, and the environment. Based on the expanded STIRPAT model, this paper empirically tests the impact of energy structure and digital economy on carbon emissions by panel data from 2011 to 2017 in 30 provinces of China. The results show that the energy structure mainly based on coal has a significant driving effect on carbon emissions. Compared with non-resource-based provinces, the increase of energy structure dominated by coal has a greater effect on carbon emission in resource-based provinces. It is worth noting that this kind of influence has a greater impact on the central region of China, followed by the western region and the eastern region. Besides, the digital economy has a significant moderating effect. With the development of digital economy, the impact of coal-based energy structure on carbon emissions is gradually decreasing. This effect is more significant in non-resource-based provinces and eastern China, but not significant in resource-based cities and central and western China.

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The role of information and communication technologies in mitigating carbon emissions: evidence from panel quantile regression

Cited by 124 publications

References 87 publications

Evaluation of the Effects of Urbanization on Carbon Emissions: The Transformative Role of Government Effectiveness

Evaluation of the Effects of Urbanization on Carbon Emissions: The Transformative Role of Government Effectiveness

ICT and education as determinants of environmental quality: The role of financial development in selected Asian countries

Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions: evidence from China

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