New toxics, race to the bottom and revised environmental Kuznets curve: The case of local and global pollutants

Rasli, Amran; Qureshi, Muhammad Imran; Chikaji, Aliyu Isah; Zaman, Khalid; Ahmad, Mehboob

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2017.08.092

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“…Furthermore, at the regional level, the EKC hypothesis has been tested by a number of scholars, such as Atici () for the central and eastern Europe; Pao and Tsai () for a panel of Brazil, Russia, India, and China countries; Acaravci and Ozturk () for Europe; Arouri, Youssef, M'henni, and Rault () for Middle East and North African countries; Ozcan () for Middle East countries; Bölük and Mert () for a panel of European Union countries; Ozturk () for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa countries; Heidari, Katircioğlu, and Saeidpour () for five Association of South East Asian Nations countries; Bilgili, Koçak, and Bulut () for 17 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries; Shahbaz, Solarin, and Ozturk () for 19 African countries; Charfeddine and Mrabet () for 15 Middle East and North African countries; and Dong, Sun, Jiang, and Zeng () for 14 Asia‐Pacific countries. In addition, the EKC hypothesis has been examined at the global level by, for example, Alvarado, Ponce, Criollo, Córdova, and Khan (); Paramati, Alam, and Apergis (); Rasli, Qureshi, Isah‐Chikaji, Zaman, and Ahmad (); Shahbaz, Ozturk, Afza, and Ali (); Shuai et al (); Shuai et al (); and Ulucak and Bilgili ().…”

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The environmental consequences of fossil fuels in China: National and regional perspectives

Zhong

Dong

2019

Sustainable Development

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Control of the increasing fossil fuel‐based carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the associated environmental consequences are important for sustainable development in China. Nevertheless, very few studies have investigated the environmental consequences of China's fossil fuels at both the national and regional levels. For this purpose, this study explores the dynamic relationships among CO2 emissions, economic growth, and consumption of various fossil fuels (i.e., coal, petroleum, and natural gas) in China, using the panel dataset of 30 provinces for the period 1997–2015. Considering the significant differences across various regions, the whole sample and different regions in China are analyzed separately. The estimated results, at both the national and regional levels, provide strong evidence in favor of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for CO2 emissions in China. Furthermore, increasing coal and petroleum consumption significantly promotes CO2 emissions. Conversely, natural gas offers a cleaner substitute for other fossil fuels (i.e., coal and petroleum); its substitution effect may be influenced by the share of natural gas in the total energy needs. Finally, the above findings highlight several policy implications for the Chinese government's policymakers to effectively reduce CO2 emissions in China, thereby setting the nation on a sustainable development path.

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The environmental consequences of fossil fuels in China: National and regional perspectives

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2019

Sustainable Development

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“…Kuznets [35] hypothesized that income inequality increases to a certain level and then falls with an increased income per capita. Various studies have focused on validating the EKC hypothesis (see for example [36][37][38]). The main focuses of these studies have been to validate the EKC hypothesis.…”

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Investigating the Dynamic Impact of CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth on Renewable Energy Production: Evidence from FMOLS and DOLS Tests

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Understanding the dynamic nexus between CO2 emissions and economic growth in the sustainable environment helps the economies in developing resources and formulating apposite energy policies. In the recent past, various studies have explored the nexus between CO2 emissions and economic growth. This study, however, investigates the nexus between renewable energy production, CO2 emissions, and economic growth over the period from 1995 to 2016 for seven Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) methodologies were used to estimate the long- and short-run relationships. The panel results revealed that renewable energy production has a significant long term effect on CO2 emissions for Vietnam (t = −2.990), Thailand (t = −2.505), and Indonesia (t = −2.515), and economic growth impact for Malaysia (t = 2.050), Thailand (t = −2.001), and the Philippines (t = −2.710). It is, therefore, vital that the ASEAN countries implement policies and strategies that ensure energy saving and continuous economic growth without forsaking the environment. This study, as such, recommends that ASEAN countries should take measures to decrease the reliance on fossil fuels for achieving these objectives. Future research should consider the principles of circular economy and clean energy development mechanisms integrated with renewable energy technologies.

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“…Significant gains have been made in reducing global primary emissions of some highly regulated chemicals (SC 2017), although debate continues on the overall impacts of shifting global geographies of the production of toxic risks (Rasli et al 2018). The United States serves as an excellent case study on the multifaceted nature of governing toxic chemical risks.…”

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Toxic Chemical Governance Failure in the United States: Key Lessons and Paths Forward

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Abstract Over 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health. We contend that these failures result from the flawed governance over the continued production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals. To address this failure, we need to identify the broader social, political, and technological processes producing, knowing, and regulating toxic chemicals, collectively referred to as toxic chemical governance. To do so, we create a conceptual framework covering five key domains of governance: knowledge production, policy design, monitoring and enforcement, evaluation, and adjudication. Within each domain, social actors of varying power negotiate what constitutes acceptable risk, creating longer-term path dependencies in how they are addressed (or not). Using existing literature and five case studies, we discuss four paths for improving governance: evolving paradigms of harm, addressing bias in the knowledge base, making governance more equitable, and overcoming path dependency.

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New toxics, race to the bottom and revised environmental Kuznets curve: The case of local and global pollutants

Cited by 70 publications

References 55 publications

The environmental consequences of fossil fuels in China: National and regional perspectives

The environmental consequences of fossil fuels in China: National and regional perspectives

Investigating the Dynamic Impact of CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth on Renewable Energy Production: Evidence from FMOLS and DOLS Tests

Toxic Chemical Governance Failure in the United States: Key Lessons and Paths Forward

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