Modeling the dynamic Nexus among coal consumption, pollutant emissions and real income: empirical evidence from South Africa

Magazzino, Cosimo; Bekun, Festus Vıctor; Etokakpan, Mfonobong Udom; Uzuner, Gizem

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-07345-7

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“…South Africa, like other BRICS countries, have witnessed a fairly stable growth over the years and is arguably the most developed in the continent. However, one important factor that has contributed to the country's growth is energy consumption (Nathaniel et al, 2019;Magazzino et al, 2020). Unfortunately, the country consumes more of non-renewable energy sources.…”

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“…This was way above that of China, India, USA, South Korea, and Japan with 63.4%, 38.7%, 23.8%, 23.1%, and 21.1% respectively. South Africa generates 95% of its electricity from coal (Magazzino et al, 2020). Apart from being abundant and cheap, coal is a pollutant and non-renewable.…”

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“…It adds to emissions and truncates environmental sustainability. Unfortunately, coal, a natural resource, is a major source of energy in South Africa, its exploration and consumption have been found to environmentally harmful Udi et al, 2020;Magazzino et al, 2020;. The urbanization rate in South Africa has been on a stable rise.…”

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Modelling the Impact of Energy Consumption, Natural Resources, and Urbanization on Ecological Footprint in South Africa: Assessing the Moderating Role of Human Capital

Nathaniel¹,

Bekun²,

Faizulayev³

2021

IJEEP

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Apart from being the most urbanized and largest emitter of CO 2 emissions in Africa, South Africa currently harbours an ecological deficit territory mainly due to its desire to attain more growth with less attention to its natural environment. Since environmental distortions are mainly an outcome of human activities, this study becomes the first to investigate the linkage between natural resource (NR), human capital, energy consumption, and ecological footprint (EF) in South Africa. Findings from the long-run results reveal that energy consumption, natural resource, economic growth, and urbanization add to the EF, while human capital curtails environmental deterioration. The interaction between human capital and urbanization helps in mitigating environmental degradation, which suggests a moderating effect of human capital in urban sustainability. The CCR, DOLS and FMOLS confirm the robustness of the findings. A feedback causality exists between natural resource and economic growth, and between economic growth and EF. Natural resources and urbanization also Granger cause EF. Lastly, policies relating to urban and natural resource sustainability and human capital development are discussed.

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Modelling the Impact of Energy Consumption, Natural Resources, and Urbanization on Ecological Footprint in South Africa: Assessing the Moderating Role of Human Capital

Nathaniel¹,

Bekun²,

Faizulayev³

2021

IJEEP

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“…It is worthwhile to also emphasize that, in addition to departing from the mainstream literature on the finance-"environmental sustainability" nexus as discussed above, the focus of this study also steers clear of the two main strands of environmental sustainability literature, notably on, nexuses between economic development, energy consumption and energy pollution. The first group has focused on linkages between environmental degradation and economic growth (Layachi, 2019;Bah, Abdulwakil & Azam, 2019;Bah, Abdulwakil & Azam, 2020;Magazzino, Bekun, Etokakpan & Uzuner, 2020) while the second is concerned with nexuses between energy consumption and pollution of the environment (Wang & Dong, 2019;Adams & Nsiah, 2019;Nathaniel & Iheonu, 2019;Akinyemi, Efobi, Osabuohien & Alege, 2019;Acheampong, Adams &Boateng, 2019;Kuada & Mensah, 2020).…”

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Inequality, finance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu

Odhiambo

2021

Renewable Energy

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The study investigates linkages between financial development, income inequality and renewable energy consumption from 39 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on data for the period 2004-2014, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and Quantile Regressions (QR). The GMM results show that financial development unconditionally promotes renewable energy consumption while income inequality counteracts the underlying positive effect. The QR results reveal that the GMM findings only withstand empirical validity in bottom quantiles of the renewable energy consumption distribution. In order to increase room for policy implications for the promotion of renewable energy consumption, critical masses of income inequality that should not be exceeded are computed for bottom quantiles of the renewable energy consumption distribution while income inequality thresholds that should be exceeded are computed for top quantiles of the renewable energy consumption distribution. The study reconciles two strands of the literature.Theoretical, practical and policy implications are discussed.

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“…Bekun et al [ 6 ] assessed the energy-economic growth nexus for South Arica and found the energy-led growth hypothesis's prevalence in the long-run. On the other hand, Magazzino et al [ 30 ] also incorporated a study for South Africa using the Toda-Yamamoto Granger causality test and showed a feedback causality between economic growth and CO 2 emissions. The FMOLS long-run estimation showed the inverted U-shaped pattern between energy consumption and environmental degradation in South Africa.…”

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Energy-output nexus in Bangladesh: A two-sector model analysis

Amin

Kabir

Khan

2020

Energy Strategy Reviews

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The relationship between energy and output is one of the key issues in economic literature. Existing empirical studies have mainly used the neoclassical one-sector aggregate production function to examine the energy-output nexus and revealed inconclusive results. To address this issue, in this paper, we develop a two-sector model differentiating the energy sector from the conventional production sector to study the energy-output linkage for the Bangladesh economy. Using the annual data from 1985 to 2018, we conduct several unit root tests and reveal that our variables are stationary at their first difference. We further use the Johansen-Juselius cointegration and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds tests and find that the variables are cointegrated in the long-run. By using three robust estimators (Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS), and Dynamic ARDL), we reveal that a 1% increase in energy can increase the output by 0.06–0.10% in the long-run. We also run the Granger causality test and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to check the long-run and short-run causality. Our results find a unidirectional causality running from energy to output in the long-run but not in the short-run. We recommend that a reliable supply of energy needs to be ensured for future sustainable development in Bangladesh.

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Modeling the dynamic Nexus among coal consumption, pollutant emissions and real income: empirical evidence from South Africa

Cited by 59 publications

References 66 publications

Modelling the Impact of Energy Consumption, Natural Resources, and Urbanization on Ecological Footprint in South Africa: Assessing the Moderating Role of Human Capital

Modelling the Impact of Energy Consumption, Natural Resources, and Urbanization on Ecological Footprint in South Africa: Assessing the Moderating Role of Human Capital

Inequality, finance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Energy-output nexus in Bangladesh: A two-sector model analysis

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