Review of hospital plastic waste management strategies for Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Healthcare waste management is considered one of the biggest challenges that the world is going to face in the future. This threat is becoming reality...     

Roadmap for carbon neutrality: the mediating role of clean energy development-related investments

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Recently, the Japanese government has announced the national objective of turning the economy of Japan carbon–neutral by 2050. This...     

Reverse vaccinology approach for multi-epitope centered vaccine design against delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, initially identified in Wuhan, China, has impacted people all over the globe and new variants of concern continue to...     

How COVID-19 shock will drive the economy and climate? A data-driven approach to model and forecast

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The pandemic shock puts the world on quarantine and paused economic operations that affected energy consumption and economic output. This study...     

Innovation for carbon mitigation: a hoax or road toward green growth? Evidence from newly industrialized economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The research explores the nexus between technological innovation and green growth in nine newly industrialized (NI) countries for the period from 2000...     

Salt marsh restoration: an overview of techniques and success indicators

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Coastal wetlands including salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth. They are known for improving the quality of coastal water...     

The role of green innovations,environmental policies and carbon taxes in achieving the sustainable development goals of carbon neutrality

The green innovations, environmental policies, and carbon taxes are the tools to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the mitigation process. This study is intended to examine the impact of innovation, carbon pricing (CTAX), environmental policies (EP), and energy consumption (ECON) on PM_2.5 and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission for Central-Eastern European countries. The panel effect during 2000–2018 is tested using a dynamic panel data model while the Granger causality approach obtains country-related outcomes. The outcomes reveal that eco-friendly innovations have a more profound effect on carbon mitigation. Environmental policies reduce emissions by 2.7% in the short run and 17.4% in the long run. Similarly, CTAX mitigates GHG emissions by 8.6% in the short-run and PM2.5 by 0.9% and 5.7% in the short and long run. However, urbanization, energy consumption and trade openness are the leading polluters in the region. The main findings remain dominant in the country-specific results and find unidirectional and bidirectional causality evidence among variables. The research concludes that green innovations and strict environmental policy can lead towards achieving sustainable development goals using carbon taxes as a tool on the way.

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