Environmental Pollution is cost of economic growth via
increased industrialisation, urbanisation, mechanisation, use of
fertiliser and pesticides in agriculture and mismanagement to dump human
waste, especially in developing countries, where environmental laws
usually are relatively less strict. Hence growth and pollution are
positively linked in developing countries expectedly. Sustainable
development may be defined as continuous increase in the socio-economic
standard of living of a country‘s population, normally accomplished by
improving the quality of its physical and human capital. The research‘s
foremost objective is the generation of environmental pollution index
that incorporate various production and consumption side indicators that
are majorly responsible for pollution. While, the at-most objective of
the study is to examine the causal relationship between the generated
pollution index and human development through a panelcausality analysis
using a panel of 32developing countries over the period 2000-2013. JEL
Classification:Q2, Q3, Q4, O13 Keywords:Pollution Indices, HDI,
Renewable Energy, Panel Causality, Sustainable Development