Climate change policy in a world of uncertainty: changing environment, knowledge, and tourism in Botswana

Hambira, Wame L.; Saarinen, Jarkko; Moses, Oliver

doi:10.1080/19376812.2020.1719366

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“…EPU can not only change economic activities or the attention of policymakers (Balcilar et al, 2016;Degiannakis et al, 2018;Hailemariam et al, 2019;Phan et al, 2021) [4][5][6][7], but also change a firm's behaviors or decisions in the direction of environmental protection (Guidolin and La Ferrara, 2010; Kang et al, 2017;Olanipekun et al, 2019;Akron et al, 2020) [8][9][10][11], since economic activities and the manner of production contribute to air pollution (Salahuddin et al, 2018;Shahbaz et al, 2019) [12,13]. With growing social problems such as human diseases, extreme climate events, and natural disasters caused by serious air pollution (Kompas et al, 2018;Shahbaz et al, 2019;Coskuner et al, 2020) [13][14][15], it is generally accepted globally that to reduce air pollution is essential for human survival and for national sustainable development (Hambira et al, 2020;Huo et al, 2020) [16,17]. Thus, it is necessary to query whether increasing EPU can affect air pollution (Jiang et al, 2019;Yu et al, 2021;Adams et al, 2020) [18][19][20].…”

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Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Carbon Emissions: Evidence from 137 Multinational Countries

Wang

Geng

Xia

et al. 2021

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With growing economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and the importance of protecting the natural environment worldwide, the relationship between EPU and carbon emissions should be investigated further. However, conclusions in the existing literature on the relationship between EPU and carbon emission are inconclusive. This paper aims to examine the influence of EPU on carbon emissions according to the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) model. To investigate such essential issues, we conduct GMM estimations by utilizing cross-country data covering 137 countries during the period 1970–2018, obtained from World Bank and OECD statistics. Our empirical estimations support that EPU would bring about more carbon emissions, while we conduct empirical analysis by changing the system of measurement, employing alternative estimation and constructing new samples. Our study provides substantial policy implications for government participation in international treaties on environmental protection to mitigate environmental degradation.

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Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Carbon Emissions: Evidence from 137 Multinational Countries

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Geng

Xia

et al. 2021

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“…With growing social problems such as human diseases, extreme climate events, and natural disasters caused by serious environmental degradation (Kompas et al, 2018; Shahbaz et al, 2019; Coskuner et al, 2020) [ 1 , 2 , 3 ], it is generally accepted worldwide that protecting the environment is essential for the survival of humans and national sustainable development (Hambira et al, 2020; Huo et al, 2020) [ 4 , 5 ]. Following this idea, many scholars have investigated how to achieve better environmental performance, and what factors can affect nature from the perspective of economic activities, technological innovation, international trade, energy efficiency, energy structure, political regimes, and so on (Khan et al, 2019; Mahadevan and Sun, 2020; Wang et al, 2021b) [ 6 , 7 , 8 ].…”

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Economic Policy Uncertainty, Social Development, Political Regimes and Environmental Quality

Geng

Xia

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This paper aims to examine the influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on environmental performance, as well as the moderating effect of social development and the political regimes in EPU’s influence on environmental performance. To investigate such essential issues, we conducted Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimations by utilizing cross-country data covering 137 countries during the period of 2001–2018, according to the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) model. Our empirical estimations support that EPU negatively affects environmental performance; this idea was still supported when we conducted an empirical analysis by changing the measurements, employing alternative estimations and constructing new samples. Furthermore, not only would the absolute level of EPU bring worse environmental performance, but so would an increase in EPU. Moreover, higher economic performance, globalization and a high quality of governance can help countries to alleviate the adverse environmental effect of EPU. Additionally, EPU’s negative effect on environmental performance is stronger in right-wing countries, autocracies and non-OECD countries, compared to their counterparts. Our study provides substantial policy implications for governments participating in the international treaties of environmental protection, to mitigate environmental degradation.

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“…Currently, negative effects are observed due to the progressive climate change [4]. Many research reports and experts indicate climate change as the leading human and environmental problem of the 21st century [5,6]. It seems clear that the impact of climate change on clean energy and investment varies significantly between countries with different levels of clean energy investment [4,7,8].…”

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Analysis of the RES Potential in Accordance with the Energy Policy of the European Union

Jałowiec¹,

Wojtaszek²

2021

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There is a need to reduce carbon-based energy and replace it with clean energy in order to counteract the negative effects of climate change. The increase in renewable energy sources may result in savings and the increasing cost of maintaining carbon-based energy. Worldwide involvement is required. The fulfillment of conditions by individual states does not solve the problem. The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed economic growth. It turns out that economic growth is not always associated with increased investments in RES (existing or emerging new clean energy points). We have a new epidemiological threat—Delta—which could become large. This will not improve the situation. Germany is an exemplary country for benchmarking in the field of renewable energy. The worrying fact is that Poland, despite economic growth, does not achieve an even growth in RES. Each of us is required to be involved, to be open to innovation and to act in accordance with the energy policy of the European Union. Basic management functions (planning, organizing, motivating and controlling) are also essential. Failure to meet the demands of the energy policy should be thoroughly verified and consequences should be drawn in order to involve the whole world. The authors thoroughly analyzed many factors that have a significant impact on the success in stopping climate change and increasing RES. With the increase in energy demand, renewable energy is introduced to a greater extent. Additionally, coal energy will be more expensive to maintain. The more RES, the more expensive the energy obtained from mine sources. The investment is an opportunity to meet the demands of RES, but investors are currently only interested in investing in renewable energy in highly developed countries. The decision-making process regarding the implementation of renewable energy sources not only consists in a radical decision to introduce changes, but also in the fulfillment of a number of assumptions regarding the energy policy controlled by the authorities of a given state as part of this action. There is a risk (fear) in underdeveloped countries that they will not be able to finalize this project, either due to the lack of investor interest or the lack of real opportunities due to the failure to meet the guidelines of the energy policy of a given country. It is advisable that state governments facilitate the process as much as possible so that even less developed countries could take advantage of this postulate.

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Climate change policy in a world of uncertainty: changing environment, knowledge, and tourism in Botswana

Cited by 19 publications

References 53 publications

Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Carbon Emissions: Evidence from 137 Multinational Countries

Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Carbon Emissions: Evidence from 137 Multinational Countries

Economic Policy Uncertainty, Social Development, Political Regimes and Environmental Quality

Analysis of the RES Potential in Accordance with the Energy Policy of the European Union

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