Renewable energy, urbanization, and ecological footprint linkage in CIVETS

Nathaniel, Solomon Prince; Nwodo, Ozoemena Stanley; Sharma, Gagan Deep; Shah, Muhammad Ibrahim

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-08466-0

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“…Further, Nathaniel et al (2020b) illustrate that financial development, economic growth, and urbanization add to environmental degradation in MENA countries. In line with this assumption, Nathaniel et al (2020c) show that non-RE consumption and urbanization are the chief contributors to environmental degradation in the CIVETS countries.…”

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Modeling the Nexus Between Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy: The African Perspectives

Tiba

Bélaïd

2020

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Motivated by the gained momentum of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) under the umbrella of the United Nations organization, in the light of the SDG-7, which stipulates the access to affordable, sustainable, and modern energy, this paper explores the dynamic relationship between renewable energy and the pillars of sustainable development. Its insights are driven using a simultaneous equation model based on a panel of 25 African economies covering the period 1990-2014. The results show that renewable energy is important for sustainable development and that higher levels of renewable energy can increase sustainability. The findings also confirm the positive influence of renewable energy on the economic, environmental, social, and institutional dimensions. These positive effects stem from investment in clean energy in the whole of Africa, combined with structural changes promoting the use of clean energy and the achievement of the millennium development goals. The findings should be useful for policymakers in Africa. Aggressive renewable energy policies will be crucial for achieving energy-policy goals and the "multiple benefits" of renewable energy, such as reducing climate change and air pollution, improving energy security, and increasing access to energy.

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confidence: 61%

“…In line with this assumption, Nathaniel et al . (2020c) show that non‐RE consumption and urbanization are the chief contributors to environmental degradation in the CIVETS countries.…”

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Modeling the Nexus Between Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy: The African Perspectives

Tiba

Bélaïd

2020

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…Given the climatic differences among these most affected ten countries, it seems reasonable to examine the impact of such meteorological factors, including an air pollutant for each of these countries too. This is one of the first studies that take into consideration the nexus between the confirmed Covid-19 confirmed cases, deaths, meteorological factors, including an air pollutant in the world's top 10 infected countries, from 1 February 2020 through 30 June 2020, using advanced econometric techniques (Sharma et al 2020a;Nathaniel et al 2020), including the novel Dynamic Common Correlated Effect (DCCE) model that accounts for the heterogeneity across the nations and provide more reliable and generalizable results (Mensah et al 2020;Meo et al 2020) Our findings confirm a strong cross-sectional dependence between Covid-19 cases, deaths, and the meteorological factors, including air pollutant PM2.5, for all the ten most infected countries under study. The Westerlund (2007) cointegration test confirms a long-term relationship between all the variables under investigation.…”

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Meteorological factors, COVID-19 cases, and deaths in top 10 most affected countries: an econometric investigation

Sharma

Bansal

Yadav

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Graphical abstract This paper examines the nexus between the Covid-19 confirmed cases, deaths, meteorological factors, including an air pollutant among the world’s top 10 infected countries, from 1 February 2020 through 30 June 2020, using advanced econometric techniques to address heterogeneity across the nations. The findings of the study suggest that there exists a strong cross-sectional dependence between Covid-19 cases, deaths, and all the meteorological factors for the countries under study. The findings also reveal that a long-term relationship exists between all the meteorological factors. There exists a bi-directional causality running between the Covid-19 cases and all the meteorological factors. With Covid-19 death cases as the dependent variable, there exists bi-directional causality running between the Covid-19 death cases and Covid-19 confirmed cases, air pressure, humidity, and temperature. Temperature and air pressure exhibit a statistically significant and negative impact on the Covid-19 confirmed cases. Air pollutant PM2.5 also exhibits a significant but positive impact on the Covid-19 confirmed cases. Temperature indicates a statistically significant and negative impact on the Covid-19 death cases. At the same time, Covid-19 confirmed cases and air pollutant PM2.5 exhibit a statistically significant and positive impact on the Covid-19 death cases across the ten countries under study. Hence, it is possible to postulate that cool and dry weather conditions with lower temperatures may promote indoor activities and human gatherings (assembling), leading to virus transmission. This study contributes both practically and theoretically to the concerned field of pandemic management. Our results assist in taking appropriate measures in implementing intersectoral policies and actions as necessary in a timely and efficient manner. Causal relations of Meteorological factors and Covid-19 (2 models used in the study) Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-12668-5.

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“…Hence, so far, the existing literature has ignored the cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity between the concerned variables. The present study employs the advanced econometric techniques robust to heterogeneity, and dependencies across nations, have proven to produce more reliable and efficient results (Dogan and Aslan 2017;Nathaniel et al 2019Nathaniel et al , 2020bSharma et al 2020). Despite their popularity, the literature has not used these methodologies to investigate the effect of such variables on the transmission of COVID-19.…”

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Econometric analysis of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and meteorological factors in South Asia

Jain

Sharma

Goyal³

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The pandemic has affected almost 74 million people worldwide as of 17 December 2020. This is the first study that attempts to examine the nexus between the confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths, meteorological factors, and the air pollutant namely PM2.5 in six South Asian countries, from 1 March 2020 to 30 June 2020, using the advanced econometric techniques that are robust to heterogeneity across nations. Our findings confirm (1) a strong cross-sectional dependence and significant correlation between COVID-19 cases, deaths, meteorological factors, and air pollutant; (2) long-term relationship between all the meteorological variables, air pollutant, and COVID-19 death cases; (3) temperature, air pressure, and humidity exhibit a significant impact on the COVID-19 confirmed cases, while COVID-19 confirmed cases and air pollutant PM2.5 have a statistically significant impact on the COVID-19 death cases. In this way, the conclusion that high temperature and high humidity increase the transmission of the COVID-19 infections can also be applied to the regions with greater transmission rates, where the minimum temperature is mostly over 21°C and humidity ranges around 80% for months. From the findings, it is evident that majority of the meteorological factors and air pollutant PM2.5 exhibit significant negative and positive effects on the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and death cases in the six countries under study. Air pollutant PM 2.5 provides more particle surface for the virus to stick and get transported longer distances. Hence, higher particulate pollution levels in the air increase COVID-19 transmission in these six South Asian countries. This information is vital for the government and public health authorities in formulating relevant policies. The study contributes both practically and theoretically to the concerned field of pandemic management. Highlights• To examine the nexus among the COVID-19 confirmed cases, deaths, meteorological factors, and the air pollutant namely PM2.5 in six South Asian countries, from 1 March 2020 to 30 June 2020, employing advanced econometric techniques • Strong cross-sectional dependence and significant correlation among COVID-19 cases, deaths, meteorological factors, and the air pollutant • Temperature air pressure and humidity exhibit a significant impact on the COVID-19 confirmed cases in the six countries • COVID-19 confirmed cases and air pollutant PM2.5 have a statistically significant impact on the COVID-19 death cases • Results assist government and public health authorities in formulating the policies for containing, mitigating, and surveillance of COVID-19 in different countries

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Renewable energy, urbanization, and ecological footprint linkage in CIVETS

Cited by 149 publications

References 127 publications

Modeling the Nexus Between Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy: The African Perspectives

Modeling the Nexus Between Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy: The African Perspectives

Meteorological factors, COVID-19 cases, and deaths in top 10 most affected countries: an econometric investigation

Econometric analysis of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and meteorological factors in South Asia

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