Clean energy, institutional quality and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

Maji, Ibrahim Kabiru; Saari, Mohd Yusof; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah; Saudi, Nur Surayya Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.clema.2022.100135

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“…First, the measure of the environmental quality variable is comprehensive, as it captures both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. This means that we deviate from previous studies, such as those by Maji et al (2022) and Alola et al (2019), which focus solely on CO2 emissions as a proxy for environmental quality. Second, we focus on energy equity proxied by rural-urban equality in access to electricity and clean cooking fuels and technologies.…”

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The Role of Energy Equity and Income Inequality in Environmental Sustainability

Ofori,

Annan

2024

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Progress in energy equity, income equality, and environmental quality are fundamental to sustainable development. However, studies providing evidence-based recommendations concerning the joint effect of energy equity and income inequality on environmental sustainability in Africa are lacking. This study fills this gap by using a panel dataset covering 41 African countries from 2008-2019. Results from the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors and the dynamic system GMM estimators reveal the following: (1) energy equity promotes environmental quality, whereas income inequality hampers it, and (2) income inequality nullifies the favourable environmental gains of energy equity. These findings remain consistent when we use the ecological footprint as an alternative measure of environmental quality. We conclude that addressing income inequality is essential for ensuring that energy equity enhances environmental quality. Policymakers should prioritise energy equity and fairer income distribution initiatives to achieve sustainable development goals. JEL Codes: D310; O13; O55; Q40; Q5; Q53

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confidence: 62%

The Role of Energy Equity and Income Inequality in Environmental Sustainability

Ofori,

Annan

2024

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“…Moreover, socioeconomic condition also has a significant and positive relation with ecological footprints at all levels; however, institutional quality significantly enhances ecological footprints at a global and high-income level, which is parallel to the outcomes of Abid, Marchesani [107], Maji, Saari [62], Khan and Hou [69] & Nawaz and Alvi [68]. Whereas institutional quality significantly reduces ecological footprints in upper-middle-income and low and lowermiddle-income countries, these outcomes are consistent with the studies of Ahmad, Ahmed [108] and Jahanger, Usman [60].…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Divergently, Edeme and God [61] & Maji, Saari [62] discovered that IQ had no significant linkage with ES when they employed GMM methodology for a panel of African nations. Dissimilar to all other studies, Riti, Shu [63] utilized press freedom as an indicator for IQ and unveiled that IQ was fruitful for ES.…”

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Nexus of green energy, financial inclusion, militarization, and environmental sustainability: A global perspective

Murtaza,

Hongzhong,

Magdalena

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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This article investigates the dynamic impact of green energy consumption (GE), financial inclusion (FI), and military spending (MS) on environmental sustainability (ES) by utilizing a sample of 121 countries from 2003 to 2022. The dataset is divided into high-income, upper-middle income and low and lower-middle-income countries. We employed a two-step system GMM approach, which was further robust through panel Quantile and Driscoll-Kraay (D-K) regressions. The findings divulged that green energy resources benefit ES at global and all income levels because of having a significant negative impact of 5.9% on ecological footprints. At the same time, FI and MS significantly enhance ecological footprints by 7% and 6.9%, respectively, proving these factors detrimental to ES. Moreover, conflicts (CON), terrorism (TM), institutional quality (IQ), and socioeconomic conditions (SEC) also have a significantly positive association with global ecological footprints and most of the income level groups. Dissimilarly, financial inclusion and armed conflicts have a non-significant influence on ecological footprints in low-income and high-income countries, respectively. Furthermore, institutional quality enhances ES in upper-middle and low and lower-middle-income countries by negatively affecting ecological footprints. At the same time, terrorism significantly reduces ecological footprints in high-income countries. This research also provides the imperative policy inferences to accomplish various SDGs.

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“…The results of these various studies show that renewable energy consumption improves environmental quality. Maji et al . (2022) arrived at the same result using the two-step system GMM estimator for 45 sub-Saharan African countries between 2008 and 2020.…”

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Effect of renewable energy consumption on environmental quality in sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from defactored instrumental variables method

Diallo

2023

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PurposeSub-Saharan Africa is a region that is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Renewable energy consumption could play a major role in mitigating the effects of climate change by improving environmental quality in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of renewable energy consumption on environmental quality in sub-Saharan African countries.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical investigation is based on the estimation of an augmented Green Solow model through the defactored instrumental variables approach on a sample of 34 countries over the period 1996 to 2018.FindingsThe results of two-stage defactored instrumental variables estimator show that renewable energy consumption improves environmental quality. Indeed, renewable energies have a significant negative influence on CO2 emissions. This result is robust when using the ecological footprint as an indicator of environmental quality.Practical implicationsIn terms of implications, governments in Sub-Saharan Africa need to pursue policies to encourage investment in the renewable energy sector. This will promote renewable energy consumption, change the structure of the energy mix in favour of renewable energy, improve environmental quality and effectively combat climate change.Originality/valueThe originality of this research in relation to the existing literature lies at several levels. Firstly, the analysis is carried out using a unified framework combining the environmental Kuznets curve and the environmental convergence hypotheses. Secondly, this research uses a very recent econometric method. Finally, environmental quality is measured using two indicators.

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Clean energy, institutional quality and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

The Role of Energy Equity and Income Inequality in Environmental Sustainability

The Role of Energy Equity and Income Inequality in Environmental Sustainability

Nexus of green energy, financial inclusion, militarization, and environmental sustainability: A global perspective

Effect of renewable energy consumption on environmental quality in sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from defactored instrumental variables method

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