scholarly journals Governance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simplice Asongu ◽  
Nicholas M. Odhiambo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Unexpected Findings

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the nexus between governance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach The focus is on 44 countries in SSA with data from 1996 to 2016. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions. Findings It is apparent from the findings that political and institutional governance are negatively related to the consumption of renewable energy in the sampled countries. The unexpected findings are clarified and policy implications are discussed in the light of sustainable development goals. Originality/value This study extends the extant literature by assessing how political governance (consisting of political stability and “voice and accountability”) and institutional governance (entailing the rule of law and corruption-control) affect the consumption of renewable energy in SSA.

scholarly journals Contribution of Renewable Energy Consumption to CO2 Emission Mitigation: A Comparative Analysis from a Global Geographic Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3853
Author(s):  
Junsong Jia ◽  
Jing Lei ◽  
Chundi Chen ◽  
Xu Song ◽  
Yexi Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Emission Mitigation ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Geographic Perspective

Renewable energy consumption (REC) has an important significance in mitigating CO2 emissions. However, currently, few scientists have analyzed the underlying impact of REC from a global geographic perspective. Thus, here, we divide the world into seven regions to study this impact during the period 1971–2016 using the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI). These regions were East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North America (NA), South Asia (SA), and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The results showed that ECA had the most obviously mitigating effect of −10.13%, followed by NA and MENA (−3.91% and −3.87%, respectively). Inversely, EAP had the largest driving effect of 4.12%, followed by SA (3.43%) and the others. Globally, REC had an overall mitigating contribution of −11.04% to total CO2 change. These results indicate that it is still important to exploit and utilize renewable energy, especially in presently developing or underdeveloped countries. Moreover, for some countries at a certain stage, their REC effects were negative, but, concurrently, their energy intensity effects were positive. These results show that some developing countries recently reduced carbon emissions only by extensively using renewable energy, not by enhancing energy-use efficiency. Finally, some policy implications for reducing CO2 in different countries are recommended.

scholarly journals The Causality between Participation in GVCs, Renewable Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiheng Wu ◽  
Guisheng Hou ◽  
Baogui Xin
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Causal Impact ◽  
Sub Saharan

Using the panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model accompanied by the system-generalized method of moment (System-GMM) approach, this paper investigates the dynamic causality between participation in global value chains (GVCs), renewable energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions throughout 1990–2015 for 172 countries. The results show that participation in GVCs negatively causes renewable energy consumption except for the Middle East and North America (MENA) and sub-Saharan Africa. Second, except for the Asia–Pacific region and globally, participation in GVCs has no causal impact on CO2 emissions, and participation in GVCs has a positive effect on CO2 emissions in the Asia–Pacific region and globally. Third, except for globally and sub-Saharan Africa, CO2 emissions have no causal impact on participation in GVCs; however, CO2 emissions hurt participation in GVCs globally and in the sub-Saharan African region. Forth, renewable energy consumption positively causes participation in GVCs in MENA, while renewable energy consumption does not cause participation in GVCs globally and in other regions. Fifth, there is no causality between CO2 emissions and renewable energy consumption both at the global and regional levels. Several policy implications are proposed and discussed for promoting participation in GVCs and improving the environment.

scholarly journals The effect of transitioning to renewable energy consumption on the Nigerian oil and gas exports

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bukar Zanna Waziri ◽  
Aminu Hassan ◽  
Reza Kouhy
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Net energy importing countries (NEICs) pursue strategic policies to reduce the consumption of energy from conventional sources and increase that of renewable energy to attain energy security and sustainable development. However, net energy exporting countries (NEECs) rely substantially on the proceeds realised from oil and gas exports to mainly NEICs to finance government activities. This paper aims to investigate the effect of increased consumption of renewable energy in developed NEICs on the Nigeria’s oil and gas exports. Design/methodology/approach The study was undertaken by analysing macro-economic annual time-series data set (1980-2014) using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. Findings Both the short-run and the long-run results of the ARDL modelling reveal that renewable energy consumption in developed NEICs is affecting Nigeria’s oil and gas exports negatively, thereby causing significant decrease in the amounts of revenue being generated therefrom. Research limitations/implications Like most empirical studies, the conduct of this research has encountered some challenges. Thus, the use of rather small sample in terms of period covered (1980-2014), annual frequency of data and focus on one NEEC (Nigeria) are the key limitations of this paper. While the first two challenges were dealt with by using ARDL, future research can focus on other NEECs to extend the study. Practical implications The findings have several policy implications, including the need for Nigeria to focus on developing internal market trajectories to increase domestic utilisation of its conventional energy rather than depending on external markets. The results also suggest the need for public policymakers to develop a strategic plan that will effectively address the external economic threat arising from the influence of global energy transition. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper represents the first effort to empirically examine the effect of renewable energy consumption by developed NEICs on the Nigeria’s oil and gas exports. The paper contributes to the literature by providing insight into and documenting evidence that the world is taking transitioning to cleaner energy sources very seriously.

Growth threshold-effect on renewable energy consumption in major oil-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a dynamic panel threshold regression estimation

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Idris Abdullahi Abdulqadir
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Threshold Regression ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Panel Threshold Regression ◽  
Growth Threshold

Purpose This study aims to explore the relationship between the growth threshold effect on renewable energy consumption (REC) in the major oil-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the period 1990–2018. Design/methodology/approach This article used a dynamic panel threshold regression model introduced by Hansen (1996, 1999 and 2000) threshold (TR) models. The procedure is achieved using 5,000 bootstrapping replications and the grid search to obtain the asymptotic distribution and p-values. For the long-run relationship among our variables, the author followed the process in Pesaran et al. (1999) pooled mean group (PMG) for heterogeneous panels. Furthermore, for the robustness of our empirical results due to the sensitivity of the results to outliers, the author used the approach by Cook (1979) distance measure. The author applied quantile (QR) regression to explore the distribution of dependent variables following Bassett and Koenker (1982) and Koenker and Bassett (1978) approaches. Findings The results from the threshold effect test and threshold regression revealed a significant single threshold effect of growth level on REC. Furthermore, the result from the PMG estimation showed the growth of the variable, energy intensity, consumer prices and CO2 emissions play a significant role in REC in major oil-producing countries in SSA. The growth threshold estimation results indicated one significant threshold value of 1.013% at one period lagged of real growth. The outlier’s sensitivity detention greatly influenced our empirical results. Originality/value The article filled the literature gap by applying a combined measure that is robustness to detect outliers in the data, which none of the studies in the literature addresses hitherto. Further, the article extends the quantile regression to growth – REC literature.

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