The Tourism Sector's Impact on Carbon Emissions

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-66
Author(s):  
Gülsüm Akarsu ◽  
Fanny Saruchera
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Green Industry ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

The tourism sector is generally perceived as a green industry because of its seemingly clean value chain activities. However, despite these perceptions, there have been doubts regarding the environmental impacts of tourism. Past studies have considered these environmental effects due to increasing concerns about global warming and climate change. This chapter attempts to analyze the effects of tourism value chain activities on carbon emissions in the context of the environmental Kuznets curve for G20 countries using a ten-year dataset. The results confirmed the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis. The findings indicate that, despite increases in energy use and investment inflow, tourism activities decrease carbon emissions. The study concluded that tourism sector activities, foreign trade, and labor force participation all have statistically significant favorable effects on carbon emissions. Given the growing global transitions within the sector, the study reckons the sector's need to focus on sustainable tourism as a development and improvement strategy.

scholarly journals Revisiting Environmental Kuznets Curve in Relation to Economic Development and Energy Carbon Emission Efficiency: Evidence from Suzhou, China

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Ming Wen ◽  
Mingxing Li ◽  
Naila Erum ◽  
Abid Hussain ◽  
Haoyang Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Positive Sign ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Total Energy Consumption ◽  
Long Run

This study empirically examines the effect of economic development on carbon emissions and revisits the environmental Kuznets curve in Suzhou, China. The study made use of the Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (GDPPC) of Suzhou, China as an indicator of economic development as it depicts the entire developmental ecosystem that indicates the level of production activities and total energy consumption. Bearing this in mind, the authors postulate that economic development directly increases carbon emissions through industrial and domestic consumptions. For this purpose, linear and non-linear approaches to cointegration are applied. The study finds the existence of an inverted U-shape relationship between economic development and carbon emission in the long run. Trade openness and industrial share are positively contributing to increasing carbon emissions. Energy use shows a positive sign but an insignificant association with carbon emissions. The study concludes that carbon emissions in Suzhou should be further decreased followed by policy recommendations.

scholarly journals The environmental Kuznets curve in the case of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Ketenci
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run

This study explores the relationships between carbon emissions and their main determinants such as energy consumption, real income, international trade, level of education and level of urbanization in the Russian Federation, employing data for the period 1991–2016. Support for the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis is found in this study, stating that environment pollution decreases in Russia after income achieves a certain threshold. The ARDL bounds test is employed in order to estimate short-run and long-run relationships in the estimated model. Energy consumption, real income, education and urbanization levels are found to be significant determinants of carbon emissions, while trade openness does not have an impact. The Granger causality test indicates two-way relationships between carbon emissions and energy use, real income and education. Only a single one-way causality runs from carbon emission to trade and no causality was found between carbon emissions and level of urbanization.

Asymmetric Impact of Institutional Quality on Environmental Degradation: Evidence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12507
Author(s):  
Farrah Dina Abd Razak ◽  
Norlin Khalid ◽  
Mohd Helmi Ali
Keyword(s):  
Financial Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Distributed Lag Model ◽  
Lag Model ◽  
New Guidelines

This paper aims to discover the asymmetry impacts and co-integration between gross domestic product, financial development, energy use and environmental degradation by featuring institutional quality covering the Malaysia economy during the period from 1984 until 2017 using a nonlinear auto-regressive distributed lag model. The results confirm the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for both linear and nonlinear analyses, thus verifying the relevance of symmetric and asymmetric EKC hypotheses for Malaysia. Further, this study verifies the attributes of financial development and institutional quality that mitigates the concern on CO2 emissions, but contradicting results were produced on energy use. The implication of this finding provides new guidelines for Malaysia authorities to consider the asymmetries in formulating environment-related policies to maintain environmental quality and achieve their sustainable development goals.

Technology Innovation Based on Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

2012 ◽  
Vol 573-574 ◽  
pp. 831-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wei He ◽  
Jin Rong Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Carbon Economy

Low-carbon economy was an inevitable choice in response to climate warming. With the deep analysis of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), this paper used two models to analyze the relationship between the growth of a country’s economic and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process. The empirical study compare the two groups of samples, which described energy consumption per unit of industrial added value, each group contains five symbolic provinces or municipalities in coastal and western areas. The outcome proved the positive significance of technology innovation.

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