Can nuclear energy fuel an environmentally sustainable economic growth? Revisiting the EKC hypothesis for India

Bandyopadhyay, Arunava; Rej, Soumen

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-15220-7

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“…Some studies have found that there may be N-type and inverted N-type relationships between environmental indicators and the economy, which vary according to different regions and environmental indicators. The findings of this study are consistent with those of Bandyopadhyay and Rej [20], Fan and Zheng [34], and Li et al [35]. These studies confirmed the existence of an inverted N-type EKC.…”

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“…Balin and Akan [19] used panel data methods to test the EKC hypothesis for 27 developed countries from 1997 to 2009 and found an N-shaped relationship between GDP per capita and CO 2 per capita. Bandyopadhyay and Rej [20] examined the dynamic linkages between gross domestic product and CO 2 emissions for India from 1978 to 2019, and the study confirmed the existence of an inverted N-type EKC.…”

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confidence: 86%

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Do China’s Urban–Environmental Quality and Economic Growth Conform to the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Liu

Cheng

2021

IJERPH

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The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) expresses the relationship between environmental quality and economic growth. Based on the defects of previous studies on EKC using only environmental pollution indicators, this study holds that environmental quality is the result of pollutants after treatment, absorption, and self-purification, including two dimensions of pollution and absorption. Therefore, the environmental pollution and absorption data of 74 key environmental monitoring cities in China from 2005 to 2017 were selected, and a comprehensive index of environmental quality was constructed using the vertical and horizontal grading method. Then, based on the relevant economic growth indicators of these cities, they were divided into first-tier and new first-tier, second-tier, third-tier, and below. It was found that the EKC of the total sample, the first-tier and new first-tier cities, and the second-tier cities presented an inverted N-shape and had passed the second inflection point, where environmental quality continues to improve with the deepening of economic growth. There was no EKC in the third-tier and below cities. The findings have important implications. China can cross the second inflection point of the EKC and improve environmental quality at a low income level. Therefore, by vigorously developing cleaner production technologies and raising residents’ awareness of environmental protection, it is possible to improve environmental quality at a lower income level than expected, which provides a useful reference for other developing countries.

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Section: Ekc On Different Scalesmentioning

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Do China’s Urban–Environmental Quality and Economic Growth Conform to the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Liu

Cheng

2021

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“…This means that emissions increase at first, but then drop as per capita GDP grows over time. This outcome complies with the studies of Saint et al ( 2021) for the BRICS nations, Akinsola et al ( 2021) for Indonesia, Bandyopadhyay and Rej (2021) for India, and Gao et al (2021) for the Mediterranean region. Moreover, we found a negative interrelationship between REC and ECF.…”

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The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption Towards Carbon Neutrality in BRICS Nations: Does Globalization Matter?

Dingru¹,

Ramzan²,

Irfan³

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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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.

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“…The findings of both studies report no significant causality exists between both variables. However, several studies have also documented evidence of the EKC hypothesis not holding true since the findings revealed that economic growth eventually is not effective in curbing CO2 emissions (Bandyopadhyay and Rej 2021). However, the second strand consists of the studies which claim the causal link between environmental pollutioneconomic growth and the validity of the EKC hypothesis.…”

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The asymmetric associations between foreign direct investment inflows, terrorism, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: a tale of two shocks

Chishti

Ahmed

Murshed

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Foreign direct investments can exert ambiguous effects on the environmental quality of the host economies. At the same time, terrorism is a worldwide phenomenon that affects human life, FDI inflows, economic growth, and, most importantly, environmental well-being. Hence, it can be expected that there are relationships between terrorism, foreign direct investment inflows, and carbon dioxide emissions. However, in the previous literature, less attention has been given to explore these nexuses. In addition, the possible nonlinearities in data are also mostly ignored in the preceding related studies. Against this backdrop, this paper explores the linear and nonlinear influences of terrorism and foreign direct investment inflows on carbon dioxide emissions, controlling for energy consumption and economic growth within the model, on carbon dioxide emissions in the context of ten global economies that are most impacted by terrorism. To this end, we used the data from 1973 to 2016 and deployed the linear and non-linear autoregressive distributed lag methods to scrutinize the environmental impacts of the explanatory variables of concern. The results confirmed the presence of non-linearities in the relationships between terrorism, inflows of foreign direct investments, and carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the positive shocks to terrorism and foreign direct investment inflows significantly deteriorate the environment with a dominating effect. Unlike the previous studies, this current study validates the pollution haven hypothesis for the sample economies. Energy consumption and economic growth were also evidenced to exacerbate the carbon dioxide emission levels in all selected countries. Based on these results, we recommend that our sample economies should focus on promoting education, employment, economic stability, and public awareness to eradicate terrorism which, in turn, can mitigate the emissions of carbon dioxide further. In addition, stringent environmental regulations on foreign direct investment inflows are required to reduce the adverse environmental effects of such sources of foreign finance. Furthermore, the international firms should be encouraged to invest in cleaner technologies by offering them tax benefits and other financial incentives.

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Can nuclear energy fuel an environmentally sustainable economic growth? Revisiting the EKC hypothesis for India

Cited by 110 publications

References 109 publications

Do China’s Urban–Environmental Quality and Economic Growth Conform to the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Do China’s Urban–Environmental Quality and Economic Growth Conform to the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption Towards Carbon Neutrality in BRICS Nations: Does Globalization Matter?

The asymmetric associations between foreign direct investment inflows, terrorism, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: a tale of two shocks

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