The impact of renewable energy on carbon emissions and economic growth in 15 major renewable energy-consuming countries.

Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence

Reducing CO2 emissions in OECD countries: Do renewable and nuclear energy matter?

Does renewable energy consumption and health expenditures decrease carbon dioxide emissions? Evidence for sub-Saharan Africa countries.

The role of environmental entrepreneurship for sustainable development: Evidence from 35 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The search for a green and low-carbon economy has been a guide to current energy and environmental research. Using current panel cointegration approaches, our study examines the interaction between trade and an environmental pollution proxy of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by integrating economic growth and energy usage as major potential determining factors in this relationship for 49 high-emission countries in Belt and Road regions over the period of 1991–2014. For a robust analysis, we further grouped these countries into income panels (high, middle, low) and various regions (East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East/Africa, and Europe). The results of the panel cointegration tests revealed that the four variables were stationary in the long run. Similarly, our panel results indicated that trade openness had both positive and negative impacts on environmental pollution, but the effect varied in these different groups of nations. The results of the vector error correction model (VECM) causality also showed a long-run causal effect between trade, economic growth, energy consumption, and environmental pollution in the Belt and Road, Europe, high-income, middle-income, and low-income panels. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) results further indicated the existence of an inverted U-form relationship between trade and carbon emissions. Finally, certain policy implications are discussed.

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/9/2682/pdf

Trade Openness and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Belt and Road Countries

This paper contributes to the existing voluminous research on energy and growth providing a dynamic and comprehensive effect of investing in clean energy and it consequences on economic growth employing the ADRL modus operandi to co-integration to estimate the reality of co-integrating among the series in the long run. The analytical tests were realized utilizing the maximum lags explicitly chosen by estimating the series at level and confirming the stability of the unrestricted VAR model. The result establishes co-integration among the variables in the long run finding an inverse relationship between alternative and nuclear energy consumption and economic growth. The other indicator of clean energy that is electricity power consumption indicates a positive significant relationship with economic growth. Further we conclude that there is a bidirectional causal relationship between these two indicators and economic growth in the long run. This endorses the prospective benefit of Vietnam to invest in clean energy.

https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/download/11615/11082

Samuel Attuquaye Clottey

Papers

Trade Openness and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Belt and Road Countries

Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from Vietnam

Investigating the Environmental Effects of Economic Growth in African Economies