Empirical exploration of remittances and renewable energy consumption in Bangladesh

Das, Anupam; McFarlane, Adian; Carels, Luc

doi:10.1007/s41685-020-00180-6

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“…Thus, reflecting on the seemingly dormant role of the remittance, a significant contributor to Nepal's GDP, in the biomass consumption, and the negative elasticity of fossil fuel consumption from remittance in the ARDL model indicates the role it can play in the clean energy transition. Remittance is found to have a direct causality relationship with renewable energy consumption (Das et al 2021). Therefore, as a policy insight, we suggest that the remittance, which is a source of income for 24% of households in Nepal (Takenaka et al 2020), can be utilized for upscaling of the modern renewable energy technologies, share of which is below world's average in most LDCs, including Nepal.…”

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confidence: 76%

Nepal’s domestic material consumption—projection and causal impact of external financial inflows, services value-added, population, and economic growth

Baniya

Aryal

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Literature on material flow accounting has increasingly emphasized the need for an equitable resource allocation for least developed countries (LDCs) considering their future growth and the social outcomes (e.g., poverty alleviation) they intend to deliver. This paper aims to project Nepal's domestic material consumption (DMC)-scale and structure for different economic growth scenarios. We also investigate the causal impact of exogenous factors: (1) external financial inflows, such as the remittance and official development assistance (ODA); (2) services value-added; (3) population; and (4) economic growth on DMC by material types (e.g. biomass, fossil fuels, non-metallic minerals, and metal ores). We use the R tools, ridge regression and its machine learning algorithms, the autoregressive-distributed lag approach, and the abovementioned variables' timeseries data between 1993 and 2017 as methodological and data tools. While Nepal's absolute DMC will increase even in the low-growth scenario, we found that the biomass-based DMC prevalent in many LDCs, including Nepal, will be non-metallic minerals-based-a material consumption trait of existing middle-income and emerging economies. Despite this, the United Nations' LDC graduation growth pathway, often assumed to deliver sustainable development objectives by policymakers in LDCs, including Nepal, is material intensive. The increase in the gross domestic product per capita, remittance, and ODA cause a rise in DMC because of their strong correlation and causal relationship. In these circumstances, we suggest policy measures that can leverage present consumption-oriented remittances as a source of investment in up-scaling small-scale modern renewable energy technologies across the residential sector, particularly in rural areas. We suggest this policy measure considering the future rise in non-metallic minerals and the challenges to reduce it because of the rising urbanization.

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confidence: 76%

Nepal’s domestic material consumption—projection and causal impact of external financial inflows, services value-added, population, and economic growth

Baniya

Aryal

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…The respondents from the government organisations mentioned increasing allocation of climate mitigation-related finance from government sources but did not mention leveraging the immense potential to mobilise the remittances, given its one-fourth share in the GDP in 2020 (World Bank 2021 ). Das et al ( 2021 ) have identified a long-run causality between remittance and renewable energy consumption, meaning that the remittance can be used to stimulate household-level renewable energy technologies that can replace biomass and fossil fuels to some extent.…”

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“…The domestic material consumption of Nepal is largely biomass-based (WU 2019 ), and therefore, any changes in the energy system, notably the rural energy transition (e.g. use of the solar home system, micro-hydro, and biogas) driven by remittances and ODA inflows (Das et al 2021 ) will contribute to the nation’s climate mitigation goals.…”

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Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? – Insights from Nepal’s Experience

Baniya

Aryal

2022

Environmental Management

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Many low-income countries (LICs), including Nepal, endeavour to deliver climate mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving more sustainable resource consumption. However, their prospects of delivering on such goals alongside the rapid structural changes in the economy prevalent in the LICs are not clear. This research aims to better understand the underlying complexity in the linkage between the framing of climate mitigation actions into government policies and the prospects for their delivery. We use critical discourse analysis, post-structural discourse analysis, and thematic analysis of textual data corpus generated from government policies (n = 12) and semi-structured interviews (n = 12) with policy actors, such as government policymakers and private sector and non-government organisations’ representatives. We also develop energy and material consumption and GHG emissions models to predict their values up to 2050 via the R tools and machine learning algorithms that validate the accuracy of models. Our findings suggest that the social context of policymaking creates a knowledge structure on climate mitigation which is reflected in government policies. The policy actors and their institutions exchange their ideas and interests in a deliberative and collaborative environment to prioritise policies for the energy, forest, and transport sectors to deliver climate mitigation actions in Nepal. However, the energy sector, together with the agriculture sector, has insufficient climate mitigation actions. Reflecting on the high proportion of biomass in the energy mix and the rapid rise in fossil fuel and energy consumption per capita—both of which are driven by the remittance inflows—this research suggests measures to reduce these in an absolute sense.

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“…As a result, they can be employed as shading devices. Power and daylight are supplied to the building or the grid, which provides a portion of the facility's lighting requirements [52].…”

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“…Photovoltaic technology makes it possible to integrate solar panels into buildings. However, using materials in PV systems can cause some environmental and health risks regarding solar panel difficulties, such as dust concerns [52].…”

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Renewable Energy: Sources, Integration and Application: Review Article

Mohammed¹

2021

JERR

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Renewable technologies are technically viable and economically attractive; traditional energy technology receives many investment dollars. This study examines the integration of renewable energy sources using functions that associate emissions with power generation; traditional producing units can represent these emissions. The environment friendly design has become a significant concern in the first decade of the 21st century. As a result of climate change and a limited supply of traditional energy sources (fossil fuel), the world needs to take renewable energy seriously. Renewable sources of energy are derived from the energy flow that occurs naturally in a continual manner. Many people define renewability as the ability to regenerate at a rate equal to or faster than a given energy source's depletion rate. Currently, fossil fuels are used to meet most energy needs, which should be replaced in the future by cleaner energy sources, such as renewables or nuclear energy. Building integration systems aim to replace a building element with a solar panel array to boost the RES system's viability. Renewable energy sources can be used to lessen the use of fossil fuels when certain criteria are satisfied. The use of renewable energy sources in buildings has well-understood environmental and economic benefits in this study. By relying on sustainable sources of energy, we can save as much energy as feasible.

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Empirical exploration of remittances and renewable energy consumption in Bangladesh

Cited by 32 publications

References 73 publications

Nepal’s domestic material consumption—projection and causal impact of external financial inflows, services value-added, population, and economic growth

Nepal’s domestic material consumption—projection and causal impact of external financial inflows, services value-added, population, and economic growth

Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? – Insights from Nepal’s Experience

Renewable Energy: Sources, Integration and Application: Review Article

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