Role of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption in achieving carbon neutrality: Case study of G-7 economies

2022 ◽  
pp. 152797
Author(s):  
Arshad Ahmad Khan ◽  
Sufyan Ullah Khan ◽  
Muhammad Abu Sufyan Ali ◽  
Adnan Safi ◽  
Gao Yuling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Neutrality

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.

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 Does financial development influence renewable energy consumption to achieve carbon neutrality in the USA?

Energy Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 112524
Author(s):  
Amine Lahiani ◽  
Salma Mefteh-Wali ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Xuan Vinh Vo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
The Usa

Brownfield, greenfield, and renewable energy consumption: Moderating role of effective governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-423
Author(s):  
Farzan Yahya ◽  
Muhammad Rafiq
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Government Effectiveness ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigates the influence of greenfield investment and brownfield investment on renewable energy consumption along with the moderating effect of government effectiveness in 68 countries over the period 2013 to 2014. In order to evaluate more holistic view of the empirical model, we further divide our data into two sub-panels based on country risk. By applying the system-GMM technique to mitigate statistical biases including endogeneity, the empirical results show that brownfield and greenfield investment positively influences renewable energy consumption in global and low-risk panel. However, there is no statistically significant effect of brownfield investment and adverse effect of greenfield investment on renewable energy consumption in low-risk countries. Results also show that effective governments promote the use of renewable energy but it does not moderate the relationship between brownfield investment and renewable energy consumption. On the other hand, government effectiveness strengthens the positive association between greenfield investment and renewable energy consumption in global and low-risk panel, while weakens the negative link between these variables in high-risk countries. Policy implications of our results are also discussed.

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