Multi-sectorial convergence in greenhouse gas emissions

Abstract

This paper uses the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to test the hypothesis of per capita convergence in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for a multi-sectorial panel of countries. The empirical strategy applies conventional estimators of random and fixed effects and Arellano and Bond's (1991) GMM to the main pollutants related to the greenhouse effect. For reasonable empirical specifications, the model revealed robust evidence of per capita convergence in CH emissions in the agriculture, food, and services sectors. The evidence of convergence in CO emissions was moderate in the following sectors: agriculture, food, non-durable goods manufacturing, and services. In all cases, the time for convergence was less than 15 years. Regarding emissions by energy use, the largest source of global warming, there was only moderate evidence in the extractive industry sector-all other pollutants presented little or no evidence.

Consumption‐Based Accounting of Global Anthropogenic CH4 Emissions

“…Existing studies whether regarding national, regional, and sectoral CH 4 emissions are all in the scope of PBA circumstance (e.g., Du et al, ; Höglund‐Isaksson, ; Hopkins et al, ; Janssens‐Maenhout et al, ; B. Zhang, Chen, et al, ). But GHG emissions from various industrial sectors are induced by economic behaviors (Oliveira & Bourscheidt, ). Identification of production‐side characteristics alone is insufficient to comprehend the inducements of anthropogenic CH 4 emissions and relevant mitigation potentials.…”

“…But GHG emissions from various industrial sectors are induced by economic behaviors (Oliveira & Bourscheidt, 2017). Identification of production-side characteristics alone is insufficient to comprehend the inducements of anthropogenic CH 4 emissions and relevant mitigation potentials.…”

The Convergence in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across G-7 Countries

“…Panopoulou & Pantelidis (2009) The third group of studies use greenhouse gas emissions as a proxy for environmental degradation. Some of these studies such as de Oliveira & Bourscheidt (2017), Wu et al (2019), Apergis & Garzon (2020), Ivanovski & Churchill (2020) test the convergence across regions. Oliveira & Bourscheidt (2017) test the convergence of per capita greenhouse gas emissions in 39 sectors of 40 countries over 1999 to 2007.…”

Convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions among developing countries: evidence from stochastic and club convergence tests

“…However, studies focused on countries grouped by institutional structure, income classification, and geographic region lend greater support for convergence in per capita carbon dioxide emissions (see Strazicich and List, 2003;Barassi et al 2008Barassi et al , 2011Barassi et al , 2018Chang, 2008, 2009;Romero-Avila, 2008;Jobert et al 2010;Herrerias, 2012; 3 While we focus our attention on per capita carbon dioxide emissions, a number of studies have investigated other types of emissions. In the case of sulfur dioxide and/or nitrogen oxide emissions, see List (1999), Lee and List (2004), Bulte et al (2007), Payne et al (2014, , Liu et al (2018), and Solarin and Tiwari (2020); greenhouse gas emissions, see El-Montasser et al (2015) and de Oliveira and Bourscheidt (2017); ecological footprint see Biligili and Ulucak (2018), Ulucak and Apergis (2018), Solarin (2019), Ulucak et al (2020), and Yilanci and Pata (2020); and for protected areas in the measurement of environmental quality, see Bimonte (2009). Yavuz and Yilanci, 2013;Solarin, 2014;Robalino-Lopez et al 2016;Presno et al, 2018;Erdogen and Acaravci, 2019;and Karakaya et al 2019).…”