Analyzing the determinants of carbon emissions from transportation in European countries: the role of renewable energy and urbanization

Amin, Azka; Altınöz, Buket; Doğan, Eyüp

doi:10.1007/s10098-020-01910-2

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“…Except for the building sector, urbanization positively affects carbon emissions in all sectors, implying the negative role of urbanization on environmental quality. This result is not consistent with Amin et al (2020), which find a statistically insignificant linkage between emissions and urbanization for the transport sector in European countries. However, it is compatible with Xu & Lin (2015) confirming the significant effect of urbanization on China's transport sector.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Although the DOLSMG results produce a positive and significant parameter estimate for the relationship between income and emissions in this sector (model 3) (8.023), the estimated coefficient of the square of income is not statistically significant in the same model (-0.2902). While this result is confirmed by Aslan et al (2018) and Chandran & Tang (2013), it is not consistent with the findings of Amin et al (2020) and Ozkan et al (2019).…”

Section: Empirical Results and Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 66%

“…The subscripts and denote country and time period, respectively. In order to control the potential impact of other variables on sectoral , we added two control variables ( ) and ( ) to our model specification: globalization (Inglesi-Lotz, 2019;Ulucak et al, 2020) and urbanization (Amin et al, 2020;You et al, 2020). 5…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Income Inequality on Environmental Quality: A Sectoral-Level Analysis

Alataş

Akin

2021

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There is a growing literature on the relationship between income inequality and emissions. However, these studies ignore the sectoral level differences in carbon emissions. We argue that the environmental effect of inequality might vary at the sectoral level. Our main purpose is to contribute to this growing literature on the inequality-emissions nexus by considering sectoral-level differences. For that purpose, we focus on five different sectors: power industry, buildings, transport, other industrial combustion, and other sectors. To specify our model, we augment the environmental Kuznets curve framework with income inequality by controlling the effect of globalization and urbanization. Our country sample consists of 28 OECD economies for the period between 1990 and 2018. Methodologically, we apply the second-generation panel unit root, cointegration tests, and estimators, which produce robust results against the cross-sectional dependence. Our findings reveal that not only income but also income inequality is a crucial factor in explaining changes in sectoral emissions. While rising income inequality increases carbon emissions from the power and building sectors, this finding turns out to be negative for the transport, other industrial combustion, and other sectors. Our results suggest that policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions should be designed at the sectoral level.

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The Impact of Income Inequality on Environmental Quality: A Sectoral-Level Analysis

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Akin

2021

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“…The one percentage point increase in the share of passenger cars in total domestic transport lead to an increase in GHG emissions of 1210.295 thousand tons of CO 2 equivalent. These results are consistent with the studies mentioned in a literature review (Abbes [38]; Amin et al, [39]; Ding et al [40]) that found strong positive relationship between transport sector activity and GHG emissions. Still, these studies did not include passenger cars, so our findings represent new empirical evidence on the role of passenger mobility.…”

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“…The second most important emitter is the energy mix. Amin et al [39] investigated whether urbanization and economic growth lead to higher emissions from the transport sector and whether renewable energy reduces them. First, they examined the relationship between renewable energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and CO 2 emissions from the transport sector in European countries over the period 1980-2014.…”

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Globalization and GHG Emissions in the EU: Do We Need a New Development Paradigm?

Lenz

Fajdetić

2021

Sustainability

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The European Union (EU) has adopted a new development strategy based on “green” growth and announced carbon neutrality by 2050. Still, the EU’s previous development path was mainly based on trade openness and globalization, with positive economic and negative climate impacts. The aim of this paper was to test the hypothesis of globalization-induced carbon emissions in order to evaluate a possible future development path. The Arellano–Bond estimator was employed for dynamic panel analysis in 26 EU countries over the period 2000–2018. A significant and positive relationship was found between economic globalization and passenger mobility and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while environmental taxes can correct the negative climate effect. On the other hand, social and political dimensions of globalization reduce negative climate impacts. To achieve net zero emissions, the EU needs to continue its global climate leadership, extend the use of environmental taxes, and stimulate economic growth based on low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen, energy storage, and CCUS.

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Modernization, Sustainability, and Environmental Management of Transportation Infrastructures

Roy¹

2023

Earth and Environmental Sciences Library

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Analyzing the determinants of carbon emissions from transportation in European countries: the role of renewable energy and urbanization

Cited by 128 publications

References 69 publications

The Impact of Income Inequality on Environmental Quality: A Sectoral-Level Analysis

The Impact of Income Inequality on Environmental Quality: A Sectoral-Level Analysis

Globalization and GHG Emissions in the EU: Do We Need a New Development Paradigm?

Modernization, Sustainability, and Environmental Management of Transportation Infrastructures

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