Does urbanization lead to more carbon emission? Evidence from a panel of BRICS countries

Wang, Yuan; Li, Li; Kubota, Jumpei; Ren, Han; Zhu, Xiaodong; Lu, Guo‐ping

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.01.105

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“…Last but absolutely not least, the expansion of urban population leads to more diverse and concentrated production and consumption activities which contributes significantly to the environmental degradation by emitting a larger amount of CO 2 gas (Al-Mulali, Ozturk, & Lean, 2015;Liddle, 2014;Wang et al, 2016;Wang, Zhang, Kubota, Zhu, & Lu, 2015;Wu, Y., Shen, Zhang, Skitmore, & Lu, 2016;Zhang, Liu, Zhang, & Tan, 2014;Zhang, Liu, Qin, & Tan, 2017). For example, Wang et al (2015) have confirmed the urbanisation-emission EKC hypothesis which means the inverted U-shaped curve of this relationship in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries.…”

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Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth in ASEAN-10: The Perspective of EKC Hypothesis

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Environmental issues have been ranked among the most intense debates over the past decades by governments around the world. Sustainable development goals have been top priorities in the working agenda of national cabinets and administrations which questions the chronic trade-off between environment and economic performance. This paper aims at contributing further insights into the above-mentioned linkage to the contemporary literature by testing the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. By conducting a panel data analysis on ASEAN-10 countries' statistics of carbon dioxide emissions per capita (COEpc), real gross domestic product per capita (rGDPpc), foreign direct investment inflow (FDIif), trade openness index (TOI), and urbanisation (URB), the findings have empirically confirmed the valid causality running from economic growth, international trade and demographic changes to environmental degradation. Additionally, the existence of an earlier inverted U-shaped and a later N-shaped EKC has been investigated and significantly confirmed the cyclical changes of the eco-enviro trade-off. Also, this paper provides implications for policymakers to consider the cost-benefit issue in the establishment and implementation of economic and environmental protection policies.

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Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth in ASEAN-10: The Perspective of EKC Hypothesis

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“…From the consumption perspective, emissions increased by 5.9% per year from 831 Mt in 2000 to 1871.4 Mt in 2014. In 2000, 7.5% (62.7 Mt) of consumption-based emissions were originally emitted abroad and finally consumed in India, and this value increased to 16.0% (251.81 Mt) in 2010 because of the large-scale domestic demand for products as a result of India's rapid urbanization and increasing population [55,56]. However, the imported emissions decreased to 9.6% (179.03 Mt) in 2014 due to the growing industrial strength and increasing tariffs on imports after the implementation of the economic stimulating plan in 2009 [7,8], which drove product providers to satisfy India's demand, which had transferred from abroad to the homeland.…”

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Temporal change in India’s imbalance of carbon emissions embodied in international trade

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In India, rapid industrialization and reorganization of the global supply chain are driving economic growth, accompanied by increasing exports and carbon emissions. India is poised to succeed China as the next world manufactory, which will lead to huge emissions in the country. To formulate appropriate emission mitigation measures, it is necessary to further understand the temporal change in India's emissions at the sectoral level from both the production and consumption perspectives. However, existing studies that have estimated emissions in India have paid less attention to the link among original emitters, final producers and final consumers and to its temporal change. Based on an emission inventory compiled in this study, we trace emission flows from original emitters to final producers and then to final consumers through the international supply chain by using an environmentally extended multi-regional input-output model. This study finds that both production-based and consumption-based emissions in India increased constantly from 2000 to 2014, and production-based emissions had higher growth rates due to the increased coal share. The major receivers of India's exported emissions were developed countries (e.g., the European Union and the United States), while the main sources of India's imported emissions were developing countries (e.g., China and Russia). From 2011 to 2014, India's net exported emissions increased by 29.2% because of the decrease of imported emissions. Moreover, intermediate products (63% and 73.7%) were the major contributors to exported and imported emissions, most of which were embodied in manufacturing products (48.8% and 65.7%, respectively). Therefore, international cooperation to optimize the energy and trade structure and to improve energy efficiency can be effective in mitigating carbon emissions in India.

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“…Concern has been raised about the social and environmental sustainability in BRICS countries. It is a top priority for BRICS countries to coordinate the relationship between the economy and environment and mitigate the global greenhouse effect, which is of great significance to the global sustainable development [9,18]. Under the double challenges of the global climate crisis and economic growth pressure, the concept of low-carbon development and green energy transformation is now essential for the international community [11].…”

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Do Real Output and Renewable Energy Consumption Affect CO2 Emissions? Evidence for Selected BRICS Countries

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Climate change is one of the most important global problems faced by the international community. It is generally believed that increasing the consumption of renewable energy is an effective measure to promote CO2 emissions reduction. Therefore, renewable energy consumption has become one of the best alternative strategies for sustainable development. Based on this, this paper employs the 3SLS model to conduct an empirical study on the relations among real output, renewable energy consumption, and CO2 emissions of BRICS countries (except Russia) in 1999–2014. The empirical results support, for BRICS group, the complete tri-variate relationships (energy-output-emission nexus), and renewable energy had a significant positive impact on the real output, and vice versa. Besides, compared with other countries, Brazil also has the same tri-variate relationships as BRICS group. However, China has no relationship from real output to renewable energy consumption and from real output to CO2 emissions; India does not have the relationship from real output to renewable energy consumption and the bilateral relationship between real output and CO2 emissions; the relationship between variables in South Africa only occurs in the energy output chain. Finally, according to the estimation results of the simultaneous equation, the BRICs governments should consider the importance of human capital level and financial development when controlling the real output level and pollution. In addition, it should be noted that effective energy policies help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions without compromising real output.

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Does urbanization lead to more carbon emission? Evidence from a panel of BRICS countries

Cited by 211 publications

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Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth in ASEAN-10: The Perspective of EKC Hypothesis

Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth in ASEAN-10: The Perspective of EKC Hypothesis

Temporal change in India’s imbalance of carbon emissions embodied in international trade

Do Real Output and Renewable Energy Consumption Affect CO2 Emissions? Evidence for Selected BRICS Countries

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