Retracted: Does Better Environmental Governance Reduce Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emission? a Cross-Country Analysis

Abstract

Understanding the impact of environmental governance is one of the important questions in ecological sciences. We hypothesize improvements in environmental governance to reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat in environment. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a greenhouse gas and one of the major determinants of a country's environmental quality. Using publicly available data for 120 countries, I have tested the relationship between environmental governance and anthropogenic CO 2 emission using econometric modelling, and found that a unit increase in environmental governance leads to 0.36 metric tonnes reduction in anthropogenic CO 2 emission. This study justifies the role of existing environmental governance initiatives, calling for more inter-country and intra-country agreements to reduce anthropogenic CO 2 emission.