The shadow economy in South Asia: dynamic effects on clean energy consumption and environmental pollution

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study explores the symmetric and asymmetric effects of the shadow economy on clean energy and air pollution of South Asian countries over the...     

Re-evaluating the asymmetric economic policy uncertainty,conventional energy,and renewable energy consumption nexus for BRICS

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Economic policy uncertainty has increased throughout the world since the previous few decades. Moreover, economic policy uncertainty significantly...     

Re-evaluating the asymmetric conventional energy and renewable energy consumption-economic growth nexus for Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - To understand the nexus between economic growth and energy sources, in this study, we have selected Pakistan and collected data over the period...     

Green growth and environmental sustainability in China: the role of environmental taxes

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study aims to investigate the impact of environmental-related taxes on green growth and CO2 emissions in China covering the time 1996–2019....     

A study of energy investment and environmental sustainability nexus in China: a bootstrap replications analysis

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Environmental sustainability is increasing emphasis on global environmental concerns at the forefront of public policy debate. This paper investigates...     

Triangular nexus between foreign direct investment,international tourism,and energy consumption in the Chinese economy: accounting for environmental quality

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Recently, China is named among the most carbon dioxide (CO2)-emitting countries in the world after the United State of America (USA). A major part of...     

Towards a green economic policy framework in China: role of green investment in fostering clean energy consumption and environmental sustainability

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Recently, China has relished rapid green investment, and its influence on clean energy consumption and environment is substantial. Therefore, this...     

Development policy cooperation with China in the environmental sector: principles and focal areas

Environmental conservation is a focus of German development policy and thus also a focus of cooperation with the People's Republic of China. Development that is environmentally sound and makes careful use of natural resources is not only important for the people of China, in terms of preserving the source of their livelihood and helping to improve their living conditions. It is also, given the scale involved, of global relevance. This paper provides comprehensive information on the background to the environment issue, possible solutions to the problems, and suggestions on the financing of environmental technology.     

Analysis of environmental degradation mechanism in the nexus among energy consumption and poverty in Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The study aims to analyze the mediating role of environmental degradation (ED) in the association between energy consumption (EC) and poverty (POV) in...     

Digital economy and urban low-carbon sustainable development: the role of innovation factor mobility in China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - To address climate change, one of the toughest contemporary environmental issues, growing importance is attached to the role of the digital economy in...     

The effects of renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption on the ecological footprint: the role of environmental policy in BRICS countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study aims to investigate the impact of economic growth, renewable energy consumption, nonrenewable energy consumption, industrialization, and...     

The nexus between environmental regulations,economic growth,and environmental sustainability: linking environmental patents to ecological footprint reduction in South Asia

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Environmental sustainability has become a major concern for policymakers across the globe. In this regard, understanding the factors responsible for...     

Heterogeneous environmental regulations and green economic efficiency in China: the mediating role of industrial structure

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Industrial upgrading is the key to promoting green economic efficiency. Coordination between environmental regulations and industrial structure can...     

Controlling environmental pollution: dynamic role of fiscal decentralization in CO2 emission in Asian economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The “environment” has become one of the important and debatable topics of the world and policymakers identifying the new predictors of CO2...     

The interactional role of globalization in tourism-CO2 nexus in South Asian countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This research analyzes the impacts of tourism and globalization on CO2 emissions in South Asian countries. The annual data was converted into...     

Reinvestigating the pollution haven hypothesis: the nexus between foreign direct investments and environmental quality in G-20 countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - One of the most commonly debated concerns regarding foreign direct investment inflows is the associated environmental adversities that accompany the...     

Exploring the nexus between natural resource depletion,renewable energy use,and environmental degradation in sub-Saharan Africa

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study explores the nexus between natural resource depletion, renewable energy use, and environmental degradation in 48 sub-Saharan...     

Probabilistic policy experiments: the use of energy economic environmental models in the climate change policy process

This paper uses the Edmonds-Reilly model to explore an alternative approach for using energy-economic-environmental models when analyzing future CO₂ emissions. This approach – conducting probabilistic policy experiments – can be used to investigate the effectiveness of various policy options in the context of uncertainty. The analysis builds on work by Nordhaus and Yohe (1983) and Edmonds et al. (1986). A key feature of using a probabilistic approach is that it offers both analysts and policy-makers an opportunity to move away from arguing about which scenario is the 'right', best-guess scenario, and towards a discussion of which strategies are effective across a wide range of possible futures. This paper both develops a methodology for conducting probabilistic policy experiments and presents the results of five preliminary experiments using this approach.     

The role of the national recycling utility in the Korean economy

As the Korean national economy has continued to grow and the industrial structure has become increasingly advanced, the amount of wastes being generated is rapidly on the rise. Recycling to cope with the environmental problems caused by wastes has become an increasingly important policy issue in developing countries such as Korea, as well as in developed countries. To provide policy-makers with practical and responsible analysis regarding the role of the national recycling utility in the economy, this study employed input–output (I–O) analysis with specific application to Korea. The major goal was the development of a static I-O framework for examining the role of the national recycling utility in the short run. The second goal was to obtain at least a preliminary indication of the role of the national recycling utility. This paper also discusses the role of a public firm that was established with an objective of promoting and facilitating the reuse of recyclable wastes. The overall results indicate that the national recycling utility may have a significant influence on the standard of living and industrial production.     

A global prospective of environmental degradations: economy and finance

Finance plays a crucial role in a fast-growing economy that can lead to environmental degradation. The present study utilizes balanced panel data of 105 countries for the time span 1980–2016 to investigate empirical linkage among environmental degradations: economy and finance. It also unfolds the nonlinear impact of economy and finance on environmental degradation. Existing literature on environmental issues mainly focuses on individual case studies uncovering particular regions, but the comprehensive analysis is not available. To fill this gap, panels were classified into five divisions: global, regional, income-based, OECD-based, and carbon emission. The cross-sectional dependence test is applied to identify the degree of cross-sectional dependence among concerned 16 divisions. The second-generation panel models (CADF and Westerlund cointegration, DOLS, and DH heterogenous causality) are employed on a sample set to compute to unit root, cointegration, and long-run and short-run dynamics among concerned variables, respectively. The findings infer the inverted EKC and U-shaped EKC in 10 and 3 out of 16 divisions with respect to environmental degradation—economy nexus, respectively, while 8 and 2 out of 16 divisions indicate the inverted EKC and U-shaped EKC, respectively, in terms of environmental degradation—finance nexus. In 12 out of 16 divisions, the energy consumption uplifts the CO₂ emissions. The DH causality affirmed a bidirectional causality among economy, finance, and energy consumption, respectively.