scholarly journals An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (29) ◽  
pp. 36254-36281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muntasir Murshed
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Transition Energy ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Cooking Fuel ◽  
Non Linear

Lessons for low-carbon energy transition: Experience from the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binu Parthan ◽  
Marianne Osterkorn ◽  
Matthew Kennedy ◽  
St. John Hoskyns ◽  
Morgan Bazilian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transition Experience ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

scholarly journals Does Globalization Moderate the Effect of Economic Complexity on CO2 Emissions? Evidence From the Top 10 Energy Transition Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai He ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan ◽  
Abraham Ayobamiji Awosusi ◽  
Zahoor Ahmed ◽  
Mahmood Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Economic Complexity ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Government

The association between economic complexity (sophisticated economic structure) and carbon emissions has major implications for environmental sustainability. In addition, globalization can be an important tool for attaining environmental sustainability and it may also moderate the association between economic complexity and carbon emissions. Thus, this research examines the effects of economic complexity, economic growth, renewable energy, and globalization on CO2 emissions in the top 10 energy transition economies where renewable energy and globalization have greatly increased over the last 3 decades. Furthermore, this study also evaluates the joint effect of globalization and economic complexity on carbon emissions. Keeping in view the presence of slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence in the data, this research utilized second-generation unit root tests (CIPS and CADF), Westerlund cointegration approach, and CS-ARDL and CCEMG long-run estimators over the period of 1990–2018. The results affirmed the presence of cointegration among the considered variable. Long-run findings revealed that globalization, renewable energy, and economic complexity decrease carbon emissions. Conversely, economic growth increases carbon emissions. Moreover, the joint impact of economic complexity and globalization stimulates environmental sustainability. Based on these findings, the government of these groups of economies should continue to expand the usage of renewable energy. They should also promote interaction with the rest of the world by adopting the policy of opening up.

scholarly journals Measuring Energy Efficiency and Environmental Performance: A Case of South Asia

Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumei Hou ◽  
Wasim Iqbal ◽  
Ghulam Muhammad Shaikh ◽  
Nadeem Iqbal ◽  
Yasir Ahmad Solangi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Consumption Ratio ◽  
Environmental Performance Index ◽  
Emission Index ◽  
Ratio Energy

When assessing energy efficiency, most studies have frequently ignored environmental aspects even though the concept has been widely used in the past. This study evaluates the energy efficiency and environmental performance of South Asia by using DEA (data envelopment analysis) like mathematical composite indicator. We construct a comprehensive set of indicators, including an energy self-sufficiency ratio, energy production over consumption ratio, energy imports, diversification index of energy imports, energy reserve ratio, GDP productivity, energy intensity, per capita energy consumption index, carbon emission index, carbon emission index per unit of energy consumption and share of renewable energy in order to develop an energy efficiency and environmental performance index. Unlike other studies, this study first examines each indicator and then estimates a combined score for each country. The results reveal that Bhutan as a more secure country and Pakistan showed a decreasing trend, while Sri Lanka and India performed satisfactorily. Remarkably, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan showed a decreasing trend. This study proposes a policy that increases the cross-border trade of renewable energy for long term energy efficiency and environmental performance.

scholarly journals The Effect of Green Logistics on Economic growth, Social and Environmental Sustainability: An Empirical Study of Developing Countries in Asia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Green Logistics

This panel study investigates the relationship between green logistics indices, economic, environmental, and social factors in the perspective of Asian emerging economies. This study adopted FMOLS and DOLS methods to test research hypothesis, catering the problem of endogenity and serial correlation. The results suggest that logistics operations, particularly LPI2 (efficiency of customs clearance processes), LPI4 (quality of logistics services) and LPI5 (trade and transport-related infrastructure), are positively and significantly correlated with per capita income, manufacturing value added and trade openness. While, greater logistics operations are negatively associated with social and environmental problems including, climate change, global warming, carbon emissions, and poisoning atmosphere. In addition, human health is badly affected by heavy smog, acid rainfall, and water pollution. The findings further extend and reveal that political instability, natural disaster and terrorism are also a primary cause of poor economic growth and environmental sustainability with poor trade and logistics infrastructure. Further, the application of renewable energy resources and green practices can mitigate negative effects on social and environmental sustainability without compromising the performance of economic growth. There is very limited empirical work presented in literature using renewable energy and green ideology to solve macro-level social and environmental problems, while this study will assist the policymakers and researchers to understand the importance of green concept in improving countries’ social, economic and environmental performance.

scholarly journals Foreign Direct Investments, Renewable Electricity Output, and Ecological Footprints: Do Financial Globalization Facilitate Renewable Energy Transition and Environmental Welfare in Bangladesh?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muntasir Murshed ◽  
Mohamed Elheddad ◽  
Rizwan Ahmed ◽  
Mohga Bassim ◽  
Ei Thuzar Than
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Financial Globalization ◽  
Renewable Electricity ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Renewable Electricity Generation

AbstractPhasing out fossil fuel dependency to adopt renewable energy technologies is pertinent for both ensuring energy security and for safeguarding the well-being of the environment. However, financial constraints often restrict the developing countries, in particular, from undergoing the renewable energy transition that is necessary for easing the environmental hardships. Against this background, this study makes a novel attempt to evaluate the impacts of FDI inflows on enhancing renewable energy use and attaining environmental sustainability in Bangladesh between 1972 and 2015. Using the autoregressive distributed lags with structural break approach to estimate the short- and long-run elasticities, it is found that FDI inflows enhance the share of renewable electricity output in the total electricity output levels of the country. Besides, FDI inflows are also evidenced to directly hamper environmental quality by boosting the ecological footprints figures of Bangladesh. Hence, it can be said that FDI promotes renewable electricity generation in Bangladesh but transforms the nation into a pollution haven. However, although FDI inflows cannot directly reduce the ecological footprints, a joint ecological footprint mitigation impact of FDI inflows and renewable electricity generation is evidenced. Besides, the findings also verify the authenticity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Bangladesh’s context. Therefore, economic growth can be referred to as being both the cause and the panacea to the environmental problems faced by Bangladesh. These results, in a nutshell, calls for effective measures to be undertaken for attracting the relatively cleaner FDI in Bangladesh whereby the objectives of renewable energy transition and environmental sustainability can be achieved in tandem. In line with these findings, several appropriate financial globalization policies are recommended.

scholarly journals Environmental sustainability: a review of the water-energy-food nexus

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soheila Zarei ◽  
Omid Bozorg-Haddad ◽  
Shima Kheirinejad ◽  
Hugo A. Loáiciga
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Adverse Impacts

Abstract Water, energy, and food are primary resources on which human life is dependent. This paper presents a review of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus considering the environmental impacts generated by humans' reliance on water, energy, and food for their subsistence. Our review assesses the WEF with respect to the agricultural, industrial, and urban sectors and their use of water, energy, and food. The multi-sectorial assessment addresses options for improved management that avoids or mitigates adverse impacts in the agricultural, industrial, and urban sectors. Activities such as the use of fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural sector, for instance, cause water, air, and soil pollution, which leads to social calamities and environmental degradation. Therefore, examining the effects of mismanagement in one sector on other sectors from the perspective of the WEF nexus is necessary for improved resource management and environmental protection. A literature review revealed that factors or practices of resources use influence sectors differently and with varying degrees of effectiveness in reducing the environmental damage caused by resources use. Improved social awareness on resource consumption, the use of renewable energy, improved energy efficiency, the reduction of food waste, improved animal husbandry, and other factors involved in the WEF nexus are herein examined. This paper's analysis demonstrates that every action and manner of resource use in one sector affects other sectors and their resources use, also, thus calling for a unified analysis of the WE nexus.

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