A mitigation scenario for Latin American power-related carbon dioxide emissions

This article analyzes the impact of renewable energy policies on carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in nine Latin American countries, in a period of 1991 to 2012. The Panel Vector Auto-Regressive (PVAR) was utilized. The results revealed that the renewable energy policies reduce the environmental degradation (CO2 emissions) in -0.0109, and the consumption of renewable energy -0.0231, while the economic growth and consumption oil increase the emissions in 0.9082 and 0.1437 respectively. These empirical findings will help the policymakers develop appropriate renewable energy policies, as well as help to advance the literature that approaches the impact of renewable energy policies on environmental degradation in the Latin America region.

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Electricity sector reforms in four Latin-American countries and their impact on carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy

Energy Policy ◽

10.1016/j.enpol.2010.06.046 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (11) ◽

pp. 6755-6766 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Belizza Janet Ruiz-Mendoza ◽

Claudia Sheinbaum-Pardo

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Latin American ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Electricity Sector ◽

Latin American Countries

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Measuring the impact of alternative and nuclear energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and oil rents on specific growth factors in the panel of Latin American countries

Progress in Nuclear Energy ◽

10.1016/j.pnucene.2017.05.030 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 100 ◽

pp. 71-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Ilhan Ozturk

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Growth Factors ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Latin American ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Nuclear Energy ◽

Specific Growth ◽

Oil Rents ◽

The Impact ◽

Latin American Countries

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The role of the globalisation process on mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions of Latin American & Caribbean countries

Cadernos UniFOA ◽

10.47385/cadunifoa.v16.n45.3374 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (45) ◽

Author(s):

Matheus Koengkan ◽

José Alberto Fuinhas

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Panel Data ◽

Latin American ◽

Environmental Degradation ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Distributed Lag ◽

Autoregressive Distributed Lag ◽

Long Run ◽

The Impact

The impact of globalisation on carbon dioxide emissions was analysed in a panel data of thirteen LAC countries for the period from 1991 to 2012. A panel autoregressive distributed lag methodology was used to decompose the total effects of globalisation on carbon dioxide emissions both in short- and long-run components. There is evidence that globalisation contributes to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the long-run. A possible explanation of this result is that the process of globalisation causes technological enhancement in LAC countries, which contributes to a decrease in environmental degradation. Globalisation has other implications, such as the transfer of responsibility from the state to the private sector, where this transfer corresponds to the shifting of regulatory attributes to independent governmental regulatory authorities, in other words, “regulation for competition”.

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Current Status Investigation and Predicting Carbon Dioxide Emission in Latin American Countries by Connectionist Models

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12101916 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (10) ◽

pp. 1916 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi ◽

Mohammad Dehghani Madvar ◽

Milad Sadeghzadeh ◽

Mohammad Hossein Rezaei ◽

Manuel Herrera ◽

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Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Latin American ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽

Least Square ◽

Current Status ◽

Support Vector ◽

Human Beings ◽

Connectionist Models ◽

Latin American Countries

Currently, one of the biggest concerns of human beings is greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide emissions in developed and under-developed countries. In this study, connectionist models including LSSVM (Least Square Support Vector Machine) and evolutionary methods are employed for predicting the amount of CO 2 emission in six Latin American countries, i.e., Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela and Uruguay. The studied region is modelled based on the available input data in terms of million tons including oil (million tons), gas (million tons oil equivalent), coal (million tons oil equivalent), R e w (million tons oil equivalent) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in terms of billion U.S. dollars. Moreover, the available patents in the field of climate change mitigation in six Latin American countries, namely Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela and Uruguay, have been reviewed and analysed. The results show that except Venezuela, all other mentioned countries have invested in renewable energy R&D activities. Brazil and Argentina have the highest share of renewable energies, which account for 60% and 72%, respectively.

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