scholarly journals Economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and ecological footprint: Exploring the role of environmental regulations and democracy in sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahoor Ahmed ◽  
Mahmood Ahmad ◽  
Husam Rjoub ◽  
Olga A. Kalugina ◽  
Nazim Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption

scholarly journals Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1611
Author(s):  
Saima Mujeed ◽  
Shuangyan Li ◽  
Musarrat Jabeen ◽  
Abdelmohsen A. Nassani ◽  
Sameh E. Askar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Role Of Women

The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

scholarly journals Role of Export Diversification and Renewable Energy on the Load Capacity Factor in Indonesia: A Fourier Quantile Causality Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeeshan Fareed ◽  
Sultan Salem ◽  
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo ◽  
Ugur Korkut Pata ◽  
Farrukh Shahzad
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
Capacity Factor ◽  
Export Diversification ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Quantile Causality

Sustainable development and reducing environmental pressure are major issues that concern developed as well as developing countries. Although researchers widely use carbon dioxide emissions and ecological footprint within the scope of environmental degradation, a more comprehensive ecological indicator is needed to assess environmental sustainability. In this context, the load capacity factor enables a comprehensive environmental sustainability assessment through the simultaneous analysis of biocapacity and ecological footprint. However, there are few studies analyzing the determinants of load capacity factor and this study aims to fill this gap for Indonesia. Using the recently developed Fourier quantile causality test, this study investigates the impact of income, export diversification, non-renewable and renewable energy consumption on the load capacity factor for Indonesia during 1965Q1–2014Q4. The results show unidirectional causality from non-renewable energy consumption to the load capacity factor at all quantiles, while income, export diversification, and renewable energy are the causes of environmental quality at middle and higher quantiles (within 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9). Most importantly, renewable energy and export diversification increase the load capacity factor and thus support environmental quality. In contrast, an increase in income and consumption of non-renewable energy reduces the load capacity factor. These results highlight the importance of renewable energy and export diversification for the sustainable development of Indonesia.

scholarly journals The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption Towards Carbon Neutrality in BRICS Nations: Does Globalization Matter?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Dingru ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan ◽  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Özge Gülmez ◽  
Hayriye Isik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Neutrality

Although a number of studies have been conducted on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and the pollution halo hypothesis (PHH), few researchers have assessed the scope in the light of the BRICS— Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—nations. Therefore, the current research assesses the income-induced EKC as well as the role of technological innovation and renewable energy consumption utilizing a dataset stretching from 1990 to 2018. The present research utilized the novel method of moments quantile regression (MMQR) developed by Machado and Silva (2019) to assess these interrelationships. The empirical outcomes from the MMQR affirmed an inverted U-shaped interrelationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth across all quantiles (first to ninth) for the BRICS nations, thus confirming the presence of the EKC hypothesis. Furthermore, we affirmed the PHH, thus confirming the negative interrelationship between globalization and ecological footprint across all quantiles (first to ninth). Moreover, it was found that renewable energy use plays a vital role in curbing the emissions of CO2 across all quantiles (first to ninth), while no evidence of significant connection was established between technological innovation and ecological footprint across all quantiles. In addition, the Granger causality outcomes revealed a feedback causality between income and ecological footprint, while a unidirectional causality was established from globalization and renewable energy use to ecological footprint.

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