Asymmetric openness-environment nexus in most open OIC countries: new evidence from quantile-on-quantile (QQ) estimation

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Trade openness continues to have the potential to influence many parts of today’s society, including religion, transportation, lifestyle,...     

A new approach to the renewable energy-growth nexus: evidence from the USA

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The climate change is one of the leading problems in the today’s world. The rise of the renewable energy meets the sustainable growth objectives...     

Financial inclusion-environmental degradation nexus in OIC countries: new evidence from environmental Kuznets curve using DCCE approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The disastrous consequences of climate change for human life and environmental sustainability have drawn worldwide attention. Increased global warming...     

Revisiting oil rents-output growth nexus in Nigeria: evidence from dynamic autoregressive distributive lag model and kernel-based regularized least squares approach

Given the dominant role of oil in terms of foreign exchange earnings in Nigeria, this study revisits the oil rents and output growth nexus, using the novel dynamic autoregressive distributive lag (DYNARDL) model and kernel-based regularized least squares (KRLS) approach over the period 1973–2020. The major finding from this study is that oil rents are less significant for output and also exhibit decreasing marginal effect on output growth in Nigeria. However, our robustness result shows that oil revenue is positive and significantly affects output growth, while corruption dampens output growth. Result from the oil revenue model with a minimum root square mean error, when compared with the oil rents model, corroborate the finding. We are thus of the opinion that oil revenue is more important for output growth in Nigeria than oil rents. Having established this fact, it is recommended that policymakers and the government should accord utmost attention to boosting oil revenue via transparency and accountability. They should also ensure a lasting solution to the nation’s high dependency on refined crude oil products importation for a sustainable economic growth and development. Also, more efforts should be directed at developing the seven identified strategic solid minerals to further enhance the revenue base of the government.

     

Assessment of food-energy-environmental pollution nexus in Iran: the nonlinear approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Iran’s agricultural production has expanded significantly in recent years. Environmental pollution caused by the use of energy and chemical...     

An empirical investigation of nuclear energy and environmental pollution nexus in India: fresh evidence using NARDL approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Environmental pollution caused by carbon emissions is an emerging issue to study among researchers. The nexus between environmental pollution and...     

Climate change and crop production nexus in Somalia: an empirical evidence from ARDL technique

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The purpose of this research examination is to ascertain the effect of climate change, measured rainfall, temperature, and CO2, on crop production by...     

The dynamics effect of green technology innovation on economic growth and CO2 emission in Singapore: new evidence from bootstrap ARDL approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - For an economy to excel in growth, there is usually a trade-off between financial development and environment deterioration. For a country like...     

Income inequality,economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions nexus: empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The relationship between income inequality, economic growth, and CO2 emissions is ambiguous both theoretically and empirically. Hence, this study...     

Exploring the nexus between energy consumption,income inequality and poverty,economic growth,and carbon dioxide emission: evidence from two step system generalized method of moments

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The concern of environmental degradation, poverty, and income inequality remains a priority in achieving sustainable development goals. Countries are...     

The nexus of renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption,trade openness,and CO2 emissions in the framework of EKC: evidence from emerging economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Emerging economies are experiencing considerable economic changes due to change in energy demand and CO2 emissions. To explore the link between energy...     

On the nexus between globalization,tourism, economic growth,and biocapacity: evidence from top tourism destinations

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Several studies have investigated the relationship between tourism, consumption of energy, globalization, and ecological footprint. However, the role...     

Convergence of energy carbon emission efficiency: evidence from manufacturing sub-sectors in China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - With China’s economy entering the stage of high-quality development, manufacturing energy carbon emission efficiency has become the focus of...     

Urban carbon emission intensity under emission trading system in a developing economy: evidence from 273 Chinese cities

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The international community has generally recognized the key role of developing countries’ cities in reducing carbon emissions, an elemental way...     

Greenhouse gas emissions convergence in Spain: evidence from the club clustering approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study examines the convergence of greenhouse gas emissions per capita across the 19 Spanish regions using the Phillips-Sul club convergence...     

Measuring the association of environmental,corporate, financial,and social CSR: evidence from fuzzy TOPSIS nexus in emerging economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The purpose of this research is to measure the combing impact of corporate social responsibility on company performance and to conduct a comparative...     

The nexus between financial development,globalization, and environmental degradation: Fresh evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Global warming and greenhouse gas emissions have become a severe threat to our ecosystem. Prior studies on environment posit that ample exhaustion of...     

Conditional effect of governance quality on the finance-environment nexus in a multivariate EKC framework: evidence from the method of moments-quantile regression with fixed-effects models

This paper investigates the mitigating effect of governance quality on the finance-environment nexus in a multivariate EKC framework in 123 selected countries during the 1990–2017 period. We mainly employ the method of moments-quantile regression (MM-QR) with the fixed-effects model, among others. First, the MM-QR estimator reveals that financial development reduces environmental quality more significantly in countries with initially higher levels (the 75^th and 90^th quantiles) of CO₂ emissions than in other countries (the 25^th and 10^th quantiles). Second, the attenuating effect of governance quality on the finance-environment nexus is more remarkable in nations with low initial levels (the 25^th and 10^th quantiles) of CO₂ emissions. Third, we find that the marginal positive effect of financial development on CO₂ emissions is smaller under a good regulatory framework than under corruption control and the rule of law, especially in the top emitters (the 75^th and 90^th quantiles). Fourth, unlike oil, which has a considerable negative impact on the environmental quality of the major emitters, renewable energy usage reduces CO₂ emissions in countries in all quantiles, primarily in the lowest quantiles. Fifth, the findings also show that urbanization dramatically worsens environmental quality in all economies, particularly those in the lowest quantiles. Finally, we confirm that the EKC hypothesis holds in all countries across different quantiles. The study’s final section discusses policy implications for sustainable development in all countries.

     

The dynamic nexus between air transport,technological innovation,FDI, and economic growth: evidence from BRICS-MT countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study examines the endogenous growth theory for technological innovation and economic growth with the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and...