The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states

Alola, Andrew Adewale; Yalçıner, Kürşat; Alola, Uju Violet; Akadırı, Seyi Saint

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.163

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“…Countries that have passed the turning point growth trajectory mainly focus on cleaner and renewable energy sources (Bekun et al, 2019a;Bekun et al2019b;Alola et al, 2019;Akadiri et al,2019c;Sarkodie & Strezov, 2018). This focus implies that for developed economies, after a certain mentioned threshold of income, environmental quality improves.…”

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Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? Empirical evidence from an agrarian country

Agboola

Bekun

2019

Environ Sci Pollut Res

110

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This study empirically investigates the agriculture-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in an agrarian framework. Annual time series data from 1981-2014 was employed using Augmented Dickey-Fuller and the Phillips-Perron (PP) unit root test complemented by the Zivot and Andrews unit root test that accounts for a single structural break to ascertain stationarity properties of variables under consideration. For the cointegration analysis, an autoregressive distributive lag methodology and the recent novel Bayer and Hanck combined cointegration technique is employed. For the direction of causality, the Granger causality test is used as estimation technique. Empirical findings lend support for the long-run equilibrium relationship among the variables under consideration. This study also validates the inverted U-shaped pattern of EKC for the case of Nigeria, affirming that Nigeria remains at the scale-effect stage of its growth trajectory. Further empirical results show that foreign direct investment attraction helps mitigate carbon emissions in Nigeria. Based on these results, several policy prescriptions on the Nigerian energy mix and agricultural operations in response to quality of the environment were suggested for policymakers, stakeholders, and environmental economists that formulate and design environmental regulations and strategies to realise the Goal 7 of sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Section: Empirical Results Interpretation and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? Empirical evidence from an agrarian country

Agboola

Bekun

2019

Environ Sci Pollut Res

110

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“…This is essentially because CO 2 comprises about three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions (Akpan & Akpan, 2012;Asongu, le Roux & Biekpe, 2018). Moreover, according to McGrath (2018) and You and Lv (2018) and attendant literature, CO 2 emissions are at an all-time high and globalization (used in this research as a moderating variable) is a determining factor (Emir & Bekun, 2019;Saint Akadiri, Alola, Akadiri & Alola, 2019;Alola, Yalçiner, Alola & Saint Akadiri, 2019a;Alola, Bekun & Sarkodie, 2019b;Bekun & Agboola, 2019;Bekun & Akadiri, 2019;Bekun, Alola & Sarkodie, 2019a ;Bekun, Emir & Sarkodie, 2019b).…”

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confidence: 89%

The role of globalization in modulating the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development

Asongu

Odhiambo

2020

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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This study assesses how globalisation modulates the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), using data for the period 2000 to 2012. The empirical results are based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The following main findings are established. First, a trade openness (imports + exports) threshold of between 80-120% of GDP is the maximum level required for trade openness to effectively modulate CO 2 emissions (metric tonnes per capita) and induce a positive effect on inclusive human development. Second, a minimum threshold required for trade openness to modulate CO 2 intensity (kg per kg of oil-equivalent energy use) and induce a positive effect on inclusive human development is 200% of GDP. Third, there is a net positive effect on inclusive human development from the relevance of trade openness in modulating the effect of CO 2 emissions per capita on inclusive human development and a negative net effect on inclusive human development from the importance of trade openness in moderating the effect of CO 2 intensity on inclusive human development. JEL Classification: C52; O38; O40; O55; P37

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“…Furthermore, on the literature trajectory between globalization, energy consumption, and economic growth, several studies analyzed the relationship between globalization, energy consumption, and economic growth (see Solarin et al 2016;Alola et al 2019;Wu et al 2019). However, studies have ignored mainly a various aspect of globalization, i.e., political globalization, social globalization, and economic globalization.…”

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“…Furthermore, Alola et al (2019) show that energy consumption is strongly related to globalization in the long run while adopting the Autoregressive distributed lag approach. Tourism can be considered a form of social globalization, which promotes CO 2 emissions in both the short and long term, while the real income and level of globalization promote CO 2 emissions only in the long term.…”

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Consequences of COVID-19 on the social isolation of the Chinese economy: accounting for the role of reduction in carbon emissions

Balsalobre‐Lorente

Driha

Bekun

et al. 2020

Air Qual Atmos Health

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The main contribution of the present study to the energy literature is to explore the relationship between economic growth and pollution emission amidst globalization. In contrast to the existing studies, this research examines the effects of economic and social isolation as dimensions of globalization. The present paper allows underpinning the impact on the Chinese economic development of the isolation phenomenon as a consequence of coronavirus (COVID-19). To this end, annual time-frequency data is used to achieve the hypothesized claims. The study resolutions include (1) the existence of a long-run association between the outlined variables; (2) the long-run estimates suggest that the Chinese economy, over the investigated period, is inelastic to pollutant-driven economic growth; and (3) the Chinese isolation is less responsive to its economic growth while the country political willpower is elastic as demonstrated by a government commitment to dampen the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. This confinement is marked by the aggressive response by the government officials resolute by flattening the exponential impact of the pandemic. Based on these robust results, some far-reaching policy implications are underlined in the concluding remarks section.

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The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states

Cited by 183 publications

References 41 publications

Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? Empirical evidence from an agrarian country

Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? Empirical evidence from an agrarian country

The role of globalization in modulating the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development

Consequences of COVID-19 on the social isolation of the Chinese economy: accounting for the role of reduction in carbon emissions

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