The relationship between energy consumption, economic growth, and CO2 emissions in China: the role of urbanisation and international trade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Kongkuah ◽  
Hongxing Yao ◽  
Veli Yilanci
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Analysis of Spatial Effects in the Relationship between CO2 Emissions and Renewable Energy Consumption in the Context of Economic Growth

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 5829
Author(s):  
Mateusz Jankiewicz ◽  
Elżbieta Szulc
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Spatial Spillovers ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Relationship

The paper presents a spatial approach to the analysis of the relationship between air pollution, economic growth, and renewable energy consumption. The economic growth of every country is based on the energy consumption that leads to an increase in national productivity. Using renewable energy is very important for the environmental protection and security of the earth’s resources. Promoting environmentally friendly operations increases awareness of sustainable development, which is currently a major concern of state governments. In this study, we explored the influence of economic growth and the share of renewable energy out of total energy consumption on CO2 emissions. The study was based on the classical environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and enriched with the spatial dependencies. In particular, we determined the spatial spillovers in the form of the indirect effects of changes in renewable energy consumption of a specific country on the CO2 emissions of neighboring countries. A neighborhood in this study was defined by ecological development similarity. The neighborhood matrix was constructed based on the values of the ecological footprint measure. We used the spatio-temporal Durbin model, with which the indirect effects were determined in relation to the spatially lagged renewable energy consumption. The results of our study also show the strength of the effects caused by imitating actions from the states with high levels of environmental protection. The study was conducted using data for 75 selected countries from the period of 2013–2019. Cumulative spatial and spatio-temporal effects allowed us to determine (1) the countries with the greatest impact on others and (2) the countries that follow the leading ones.

scholarly journals Energy–Growth Nexus in the MENA Region: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Estimation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12444
Author(s):  
Qusai Mohammad Qasim Alabed ◽  
Fathin Faizah Said ◽  
Zulkefly Abdul Karim ◽  
Mohd Azlan Shah Zaidi ◽  
Mohammed Daher Alshammary
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Threshold Model ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Energy Growth ◽  
The Relationship

This study provides new evidence regarding the nonlinear relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the 1990–2014 period. The empirical estimation is conducted using a dynamic panel threshold model. We found one threshold in the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth and one threshold in the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth. The results indicate that energy consumption positively and significantly affects economic growth in the low energy consumption regime. In contrast, it has a negative and significant impact on economic growth in the high energy consumption regime. Moreover, CO2 emissions are positively and significantly related to economic growth in the low regime of CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth in the high CO2 emissions regime is negative and significant. Therefore, policymakers should implement other effective energy policies, such as stricter regulations on CO2 emissions, increase energy efficiency, and replace fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources to avoid unnecessary CO2 emissions and combat global warming. Future studies should identify the root causes of failures and issues in real time for inflation and link the energy–growth nexus to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy.

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