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CO2 emissions, renewable energy and the Environmental Kuznets Curve, a panel cointegration approach
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In this article, the authors combine a panel cointegration analysis with a set of robustness tests to assess the short and long-run impacts of renewable energy on CO2 emissions, as well as the Kuznets Environmental Curve hypothesis for 25 selected african countries, over the period 1980-2012.Abstract:
This study combines a panel cointegration analysis with a set of robustness tests to assess the short and long-run impacts of renewable energy on CO2 emissions, as well as the Kuznets Environmental Curve hypothesis for 25 selected african countries, over the period 1980-2012. The results provide no evidence of a total validation of EKC predictions. However, CO2 emissions are found to increase with income per capita. The overall estimations strongly reveal that renewable energy, with a negative effect on CO2 emissions, coupled with an increasing long-run effect, remains an efficient substitute for the conventional fossil-fuelled energy. Nonetheless, the impact of renewable energy is outweighed by primary energy consumption in both the short and long run, entailing more global synergy for outpacing the environmental challenges.read more
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Effect of foreign direct investments, economic development and energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries
TL;DR: The study found a strong positive effect of energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and confirmed the validity of the pollution haven hypothesis.
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Renewable energy consumption, urbanization, financial development, income and CO2 emissions in Turkey: Testing EKC hypothesis with structural breaks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the short and long run dynamic relationship between per capita GDP, per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, financial development, total renewable energy consumption, hydropower consumption, alternative energy consumption and urbanization for Turkey during 1974-2014.
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Effect of natural resources, renewable energy and economic development on CO2 emissions in BRICS countries.
TL;DR: Abundance of natural resources mitigates CO2 emission in Russia, but contributes to pollution in South Africa, and natural resources help to form Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in Brazil, China, Russia, and South Africa.
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CO2 emissions, economic and population growth, and renewable energy: Empirical evidence across regions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the nexus among carbon dioxide emissions, economic and population growth, and renewable energy across regions using an unbalanced panel dataset of 128 countries over the period 1990-2014.
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Renewable energy, nuclear energy, and environmental pollution: Accounting for political institutional quality in South Africa
TL;DR: Evidence from the study reveals that political institutional quality plays a huge role in the social, governance and economic readiness to mitigate climate change and its impact, and structural adjustment in disaggregate and aggregate energy consumption, economic growth, and political institutionalquality play a critical role in environmental quality.
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Economic Growth and the Environment
Gene M. Grossman,Alan B. Krueger +1 more
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