Causality relationships between renewable energy, nuclear energy and economic growth in France

Mbarek, Mounir Ben; Khairallah, Racha; Feki, Rochdi

doi:10.1007/s10669-015-9537-6

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“…To detect the direction of causality between these two variables, four hypotheses were considered: the growth hypothesis, conservation hypothesis, feedback hypothesis, and neutrality hypothesis. Many studies that use nuclear energy [54,55] or renewable energy [42,45] as a proxy for clean energy have found support for the growth hypothesis, which indicates that investing in clean energy construction fosters economic growth through the generation of new businesses and employment opportunities, as well the import substitution of energy [56,57]. In turn, other researchers have shown that renewable energy consumption increases as a result of economic growth, which is consistent with the conservation hypothesis [39,58,59].…”

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Impact of Clean Energy on CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth within the Phases of Renewables Diffusion in Selected European Countries

Piłatowska

Geise

2021

Energies

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This study explores the impact of clean energy and non-renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions and economic growth within two phases (formative and expansion) of renewable energy diffusion for three selected countries (France, Spain, and Sweden). The vector autoregression (VAR) model is estimated on the basis of annual data disaggregated into quarterly data. The Granger causality results reveal distinctive differences in the causality patterns across countries and two phases of renewables diffusion. Clean energy consumption contributes to a decline of emissions more clearly in the expansion phase in France and Spain. However, this effect seems to be counteracted by the increases in emissions due to economic growth and non-renewable energy consumption. Therefore, clean energy consumption has not yet led to a decoupling of economic growth from emissions in France and Spain; in contrast, the findings for Sweden evidence such a decoupling due to the neutrality between economic growth and emissions. Generally, the findings show that despite the enormous growth of renewables and active mitigation policies, CO2 emissions have not substantially decreased in selected countries or globally. Focused and coordinated policy action, not only at the EU level but also globally, is urgently needed to overhaul existing fossil-fuel economies into low-carbon economies and ultimately meet the relevant climate targets.

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Impact of Clean Energy on CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth within the Phases of Renewables Diffusion in Selected European Countries

Piłatowska

Geise

2021

Energies

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“…In terms of the relationships between nuclear consumption and economic development, neutral hypothesis was found by Bowden and Payne [32] and Rufael [33] in the U.S. and Taiwan, yet the scholars didn't consider the impacts of carbon emission during the utilization processes of nuclear power. Growth hypothesis was supported in the empirical studies on South Korea, India, and France by Yoo and Ku, Rufael, and Mbarek and Khairallah [34][35][36]. Little research has been done on the causality between nuclear production and carbon emissions, while the comparative advantage of nuclear to fossil fuels in long-term emission reduction has been confirmed by Iwata et al and Baek and Kim [37,38].…”

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Nuclear, Renewables and Low Carbon Growth: A Comparative Study on China, U.S., France and Japan

Wang¹,

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Min-min³

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Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Climate change, mainly introduced by extensive carbon dioxide emissions, is at the forefront of today's environmental concerns, and each country and region is responsible for making contributions to address such issues as indicated at the Copenhagen Climate Conference [1, 2]. The Paris Agreement that was released on 12 December 2015, as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is considered a milestone of global governance in dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Chinese government has set strict abatement targets to decrease its carbon emission intensity by 60-65% (from 2005 levels) by 2030 and meet its emission peak around the same time [3]. Although the United States has withdrawn from the agreement (in early 2017), as the biggest emitter worldwide, China is determined to undertake its own responsibilities in controlling climate variation [4]. As such, enormous changes in balancing economic growth

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“…It suggests that policies enacted on saving energy may adversely impact economic growth. This hypothesis was demonstrated by Yang (2000), Apergis and Payne (2011), Tang (2008), Omri et al (2014), Saidi and Hammami (2015a) and Mbarek et al (2015). Finally, the neutrality hypothesis assumes no causal relation between GDP growth and energy consumption.…”

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“…The Cobb-Douglas production functions including capital and labour as additional factors of production. GDP depends also on energy consumption, which is directly related to CO 2 emissions (Omri et al, 2014;Saidi and Hammami, 2015a;Mbarek et al, 2015;Chaabouni, 2016). In addition, Anwar and Sun (2011) and Omri et al (2014), among others, include trade and FDI in the production function to examine the impact of these variables on economic growth.…”

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Comparisons of inverse modelling approaches for predicting energy consumption, economic growth and CO<SUB align="right">2 emissions: a case study for low-income countries

Chaabouni

2019

IJSD

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This study examines the causal relationships between CO 2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in low-income countries for the period 1995-2013. The artificial neural network (ANN) model is applied to predict three variables during 2014-2025. Our empirical results show that there is bidirectional causality between economic growth and CO 2 emissions, as well as energy consumption and economic growth, and there is unidirectional causal relationship running from energy consumption to CO 2 emissions. In order to reduce emissions and to avoid a negative effect on the economic growth, low-income countries should adopt the dual strategy of increasing investment in energy infrastructure and stepping up energy conservation policies to increase energy efficiency and reduce wastage of energy. Comparison with dynamic simultaneous-equation model shows that the ANN model performs better for predictions.

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Causality relationships between renewable energy, nuclear energy and economic growth in France

Cited by 42 publications

References 43 publications

Impact of Clean Energy on CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth within the Phases of Renewables Diffusion in Selected European Countries

Impact of Clean Energy on CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth within the Phases of Renewables Diffusion in Selected European Countries

Nuclear, Renewables and Low Carbon Growth: A Comparative Study on China, U.S., France and Japan

Comparisons of inverse modelling approaches for predicting energy consumption, economic growth and CO<SUB align="right">2 emissions: a case study for low-income countries

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