“…The discourse among the general populace is particularly intense regarding the non-homogenous global population growth changes in countries, increasing energy developments in developing countries, economic ramifications, and advantages associated with the transition process. The public and political discourse regarding the implications of the ratified Paris Agreement remained relatively limited until additional political pressure was exerted, notably through initiatives such as the Fridays for Future movement (FFF), supported by Scientists for Future [55]. In line with the FFF, additional scholarly investigations have been disseminated, which expand upon preceding research endeavours such as the regional collaborative studies as in [11,12,35,47,56] and studies in the major global emitters of CO 2 such as China [36,57,58], the USA [42,46], India [44], Japan [33,43], Iran [48], Germany [41,47,59], Indonesia [39], Canada [60,61], South Korea [62], and Saudi Arabia [50,51].…”