Correction to: The effects of Environmental Kuznets Curve toward environmental pollution,energy consumption on sustainable economic growth through moderate role of technological innovation

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Environmental pollution,energy import,and economic growth: evidence of sustainable growth in South Africa and Nigeria

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Simultaneous achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially energy efficiency (SDG 7), economic growth (SDG 8), and pollution...     

基于环境库兹涅茨曲线的经济增长与环境质量实证研究

通过分别建立环境库兹涅茨曲线和基于扩展的环境库兹涅茨曲线模型,对广西的经济增长和环境质量进行了相关性分析。研究表明,除了工业废水排放量(Ewater)对人均GDP的环境库兹涅茨曲线的关键转折点还未来到,工业废气排放量(Egas)、工业SO2排放量(ESO2)、工业固体废弃物排放量(Ewaste)、NOX浓度(cNOX)、COD排放量(ECOD)、NH3-N排放量(ENH3-N)等6个指标对人均GDP的环境库兹涅茨曲线的关键转折点都已出现;lnEwater、lnEgas、lnESO2、lnEwaste、lncNOX、lnECOD、lnENH3-N均与专利申请数负相关,且截面效应均为正;lnEwater、lnEgas、lnESO2、lnEwaste、lncNOX、lnECOD、lnENH3-N与第二产业产值占全部产值的比重、污染源治理投资额正相关;lnEwater、lnEgas、lnESO2、lncNOX、lnENH3-N与非农业人口的人口密度负相关,lnEwaste、lnECOD与非农业人口的人口密度无关。     

滨海新区能源消费环境库兹涅茨曲线的实证分析

利用滨海新区2000—2007年人均GDP、单位GDP能耗及能源消费总量等指标的时间序列数据,拟合现状滨海新区能源消费环境库兹涅茨曲线(EKC)。基于情景分析法,预测了2006—2020年滨海新区经济发展与能源消耗响应关系及发展趋势,并对其EKC曲线形状做了进一步分析。结果表明,现阶段滨海新区能源消费总量与人均GDP相关关系不存在EKC假说,并且按目前发展态势,未来能源消费总量仍趋于不断增长。通过强有力的技术进步、结构调整、可再生能源开发利用以及相关法律、政策干预等措施,滨海新区可以在较低的人均GDP水平实现能源消费总量与经济增长的完全脱钩。     

Physical infrastructure,energy consumption,economic growth,and environmental pollution in Pakistan: an asymmetry analysis

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study explores the symmetric and asymmetric effects of physical infrastructure on energy consumption, economic growth, and air pollution of...     

Revisiting environmental Kuznets curve: an investigation of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption role

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Empirical studies on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis have not reached a consensus on their findings because different environmental...     

The nexus between remittances,natural resources,technological innovation,economic growth,and environmental sustainability in Pakistan

Globally, the issues about sustainable development are on the increase. Moreover, these issues are rising every day in Pakistan, as remittances are increasing, technology innovation is ambiguous, natural resources are degraded, and economic expansion might pose serious challenges to the environment. Thus, this research looks at how remittances, natural resources, technological innovation, and economic growth affect carbon dioxide (CO₂₎ emissions in Pakistan by controlling energy consumption and urbanization from 1990 to 2019. The Bayer and Hanck test of combined cointegration discloses a cointegration between remittances, natural resources, technological innovations, economic growth, and CO₂ emissions. Moreover, the autoregressive distributive lag model (ARDL) proposes a significant positive association between remittances and CO₂ emissions in the long run, indicating that the increase in remittances distresses the environmental performance of Pakistan. Our study confirms that natural resources decrease CO₂ emissions while technological advancement, economic progress, energy use, and urbanization increase CO₂ emissions. In addition, the results of robustness checks by employing fully modified ordinary least squares and dynamic ordinary least squares are parallel to the conclusions of ARDL estimations. Furthermore, the frequency causality test results show that remittances, natural resources, technological innovation, economic growth, energy use, and urbanization cause CO₂ emissions at different frequencies. Therefore, to achieve the sustainable development goals, appropriate policy repercussions can be developed toward advanced and environmentally sustainable sources of energy.

     

Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: the role of energy consumption and democratic accountability

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Considering the role democratic structures play in shaping the policies that enhance environmental quality, this paper tests the environmental Kuznets...     

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...     

Sustainable development and pollution: the effects of CO2 emission on population growth,food production,economic development,and energy consumption in Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Population growth has been a leading driver of global CO2 emissions over the last several decades. CO2 emission and greenhouse gas emissions are a key...     

On the nonlinear effects of energy consumption,economic growth,and tourism on carbon footprints in the USA

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The present paper implements the quantile autoregressive lagged (QARDL) approach of Cho et al. (2015) and the Granger causality in quantiles tests of...     

The role of electricity consumption,capital, labor force,carbon emissions on economic growth: implication for environmental sustainability targets in Nigeria

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Despite consistent investments, grants, and other concessions in the power sector, nationwide power outages still remain an issue, even in 2020,...     

The effects on forest growth of air pollution from energy production

The properties of the atmosphere have changed and will continue to change due to changes in anthropogenic activity. The change in the atmosphere is reflected in the functioning and growth of forests. This is analyzed by considering the changes in the amounts and flow rates of different substances in the entire system of the atmosphere, forest soil and forest trees. Possible effects are either direct or indirect. Three direct effects are treated in more detail, i.e. the effect generated by toxic compounds, increasing CO₂ and N deposition. The indirect effects are connected to the acidification of soil, i.e. the amounts of nutrients and toxic compounds in the soil.The study concerns coniferous forests on sandy soils in Finland. Generalization of the results and a forecast to the year 2040 is based on a multiplicative model based on the five components. According to the growth data in conservation stands the growth on sandy soils has increased by 30% during the period 1900–1980. Model analysis for the same period is shown to produce good agreement with the measured growth data. The increase of growth is presumed to be due to the steady increase in CO₂ and nitrate deposition. Continuing changes in the environment will affect negative changes in the forest growth by the end of the 20th century. The decrease is presumed to be due to acidification effects in the soil. The ion exchange process in the soil will generate a time lag between acid deposition and its effect. This time lag in the soil in Finland is expected to be 20 ±10 years. Effects of two other time lags are also analyzed.     

Investigating possibility of achieving sustainable development goals through renewable energy,technological innovation,and entrepreneur: a study of global best practice policies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study is anchored on the global best practice policies for achieving sustainable goals for Malaysia. Malaysia is among the countries that made...     

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...     

The influences of renewable electricity generation,technological innovation,financial development,and economic growth on ecological footprints in ASEAN-5 countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The Southeast Asian countries have experienced significant degrees of economic growth over the years but have not managed to safeguard their...     

The role of innovations and renewable energy consumption in reducing environmental degradation in OECD countries: an investigation for Innovation Claudia Curve

Rising economic growth in recent ages is the primary concern of most of the countries to enhance the living standard, but the ever-increasing production of economic activities consumes a lot of energy, which leads to a sharp increase in carbon dioxide emissions. Innovation may be a remedy that can help improve energy efficiency, obtain renewable energy, and promote economic growth, thereby protecting the quality of the environment. Therefore, this paper examines the role of innovation and renewable energy consumption in CO2 reduction in OECD countries from 2004 to 2019. By using the two-step system generalized of moment estimator, the results show that economic growth and innovation significantly increase carbon emissions, however the innovation Claudia Curve (ICC) is verified, and the environmental Kuznets curve does not exist. Foreign direct investment has a negative impact on carbon emissions, thus verifying the Pollution Hao hypothesis, whereas renewable energy also improves environmental quality, but the interaction between innovation and renewable energy consumption still increases carbon emissions. Financial development, industrialization, trade, and energy consumption have also been found to be harmful factors of environmental quality. Our findings have considerable policy implications for OECD countries on the improvement of innovation indicators and investment in renewable energy sources to rise environmental quality.

     

The effects of economic growth and innovation on CO2 emissions in different regions

Economic growth and economic energy consumption have received greater attention due to its contribution to global CO₂ emissions in recent decades. The literature on CO₂ emissions and innovation for regional differences is very scanty as there is not enough study that considered different regions in a single analysis. We adopt a holistic approach by incorporating different regions so as to assess how innovation contributes to emission reduction. The study, therefore, examined the effects of innovation and economic growth on CO₂ emissions for 18 developed and developing countries over the period of 1990 to 2016. The study used panel technique capable of dealing with cross-section dependence effects: panel cross-sectional augmented Dickey-Fuller (CADF) unit root to determine the order of integration, Westerlund cointegration tests confirmed that the variables are co-integrated. We employed panel fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) and panel dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) to estimate the long-run relationship. The results show that energy consumption increases CO₂ emissions at all panel levels. However, innovation reduces CO₂ emissions in G6 while it increases emissions in the MENA and the BRICS countries. Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is valid for the BRICS. The pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and pollution halo effect were confirmed at different panel levels. Based on the findings different policy recommendations are proposed.

     

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 dynamic links among energy consumption,tourism growth,and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - We examine the impact of energy consumption and tourism growth on the ecological footprints and economic growth of 38 International Energy Agency...