Exploring the effects of economic growth, and renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on China’s CO2 emissions: Evidence from a regional panel analysis

Chen, Yulong; Zhao, Jincai; Lai, Zongsheng; Wang, Zheng; Xia, Haibin

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2019.03.058

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“…This finding is in line with Saidi and Hammam (2015); Adams et al (2018), Hoon Kang et al (2019), and Diaz et al (2019) who found a positive linkage between economic growth and moving from fossil fuels to renewables. Our result is in contrast to Maji (2015) and Chen et al (2019), who proved a mixture of negative and positive relationships between green energy usage and economic growth. Regarding CO 2 emissions, the estimation proves that this variable negatively affects the energy transition process.…”

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Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Taghizadeh–Hesary¹,

Rasoulinezhad²

2020

Front. Energy Res.

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Energy transition as the issue of striving to use more environmentally friendly energy sources instead of fossil fuels is a crucial debate for scholars. A key point is how macroeconomic variables can accelerate the energy transition movement in different regions, which may lead to similarities in energy transition patterns among various regions. The main purpose of this study is to determine how energy transition patterns depend on economic variables in Asian economies, classifying based on their income level. To this end, we collected the related variables for 45 economies in Asia over the period 1993-2018 and conducted estimation using the generalized method of moments (GMM) approach. The major results revealed that economic growth has a positive relationship with the energy transition, while CO 2 emissions negatively influence energy transition. Furthermore, in both sub-sample groups (i.e., high and upper-middle-income and low and lower-middle-income groups) an increase in population lows the energy transition process. As an important recommendation, Asian economies with different income levels need different policies to improve and accelerate the energy transition movements. Especially in the developing and emerging economies that have higher economic growth rate and more energy demand, the governments need to implement various supportive policies for easing the access to electricity from green resources in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This is more essential in the current low oil price era.

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Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Taghizadeh–Hesary¹,

Rasoulinezhad²

2020

Front. Energy Res.

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“…It also confirms that natural gas and renewable energy have an important impact on reducing CO 2 emissions. Chen [41] used provincial panel data from 1995 to 2012 to test the EKC hypothesis. The empirical results showed that there was an inverted U-shaped EKC curve for the eastern part of China, but not the central and western regions [41].…”

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“…Chen [41] used provincial panel data from 1995 to 2012 to test the EKC hypothesis. The empirical results showed that there was an inverted U-shaped EKC curve for the eastern part of China, but not the central and western regions [41]. This conclusion verifies the inflection point value measured in this paper.…”

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Do Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth Decouple in China? An Empirical Analysis Based on Provincial Panel Data

Hao

Huang

2019

Energies

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Global warming has emerged as a serious threat to humans and sustainable development. China is under increasing pressure to curb its carbon emissions as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. By combining the Tapio decoupling model and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) framework, this paper explores the relationship between China’s carbon emissions and economic growth. Based on panel data of 29 provinces from 2007 to 2016, this paper quantitatively estimates the nexus of carbon emissions and economic development for the whole nation and the decoupling status of individual provinces. There is empirical evidence for the conventional EKC hypothesis, showing that the relationship between carbon emissions and per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is an inverted U shape and that the inflection point will not be attained soon. Moreover, following the estimation results of the Tapio decoupling model, there were significant differences between individual provinces in decoupling status. As a result, differentiated and targeted environmental regulations and policies regarding energy consumption and carbon emissions should be reasonably formulated for different provinces and regions based on the corresponding level of economic development and decoupling status.

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“…The result of the study reveals that energy consumption has a significant positive impact on FDI, health, environment, and economic growth. More specifically, the studies of Sheng et al (2019) In this case, Chen et al (2019) explored the effects of economic growth (EG), renewable energy consumption (REC) and non-renewable energy consumption (NREC) on CO2 emissions (CE) and tested the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis at the regional levels in China. Yang et al (2019) contributions focused on the causal effect of environmental policy on regional economic growth.…”

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Management of Environmental Performance and Impact of the Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) on the Economic Growth in the GCC Countries

Dkhili

Dhiab

2019

MMI

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This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue the Management of Environmental Performance and the Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) on the Economic Growth, with an innovative study in the context of the GCC countries. The main goal of the paper is to examine empirically the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the GCC countries. The methodological tool of this contribution tries to measure the effect of the emission of the CO2 on the Growth Economic and environmental performance. The main purpose of the research is focused on the empirical approach justified by the use of a dynamic panel modeling on a sample of the GCC countries during the period of 2002-2018. Systematization literary sources and approaches for solving the problem of the reaction of the development of the Environmental Performance with the level of the the Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) and the economic growth. The study employed a GMM model system. Subsequently, the authors displayed a Panel Co-integration test of Pedroni (2004), the Kao Residual Co-integration test (1999), and the Granger causality tests. The results found unidirectional causal relationships between economic growth and the entire variable of the sample, except the variable CO2 emission. These relationships are statistically significant at the level of 5%. For the relation between Economic Growth and CO2 emission, one the hypothesis of the paper was checking a non-significant and unidirectional relationship. The results showed a long-run unidirectional causality between the variables and implied that Economic Growth in the GCC countries has a positive and significant unidirectional relation with Environment Performance, trade openness, foreign direct investment, and investment. The results confirm the existence of a negative relationship as insignificant, and unidirectional, between economic growth and CO2 emissions in the GCC countries. Finally, this finding doesn’t support the validity of the EKC hypothesis and provide information's to take the necessary policy suggestions to maintain the environmental performance and limit the average of the CO2 emissions. The results of the research can be useful for the GCC countries to avoid the higher level of Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) and maintain a good Environmental Performance. Keywords: environmental performance, Environmental Kuznets Curve, CO2 emissions.

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Exploring the effects of economic growth, and renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on China’s CO2 emissions: Evidence from a regional panel analysis

Cited by 269 publications

References 46 publications

Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Do Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth Decouple in China? An Empirical Analysis Based on Provincial Panel Data

Management of Environmental Performance and Impact of the Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) on the Economic Growth in the GCC Countries

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