“…(1) SDA has been applied to study drivers of carbon emission in countries (areas) below: China (Feng et al, 2012;Yuan and Zhao, 2016), top 10 emitters of the world (Pani and Mukhopadhyay, 2013), Beijing in China (Wang et al, 2013;Tian et al, 2013), European Union (Fonti and Pavan, 2014;Kopidou et al, 2016). (2) SDA method also was used to study drives of energy consumption in the following countries (areas):India (Das and Paul, 2013), China (Li et al, 2014;Zeng et al, 2014;Zhang and Lahr, 2014).…”