The connection between urbanization and carbon emissions: a panel evidence from West Africa

Musah, Mohammed; Kong, Yusheng; Mensah, Isaac Adjei; Antwi, Stephen Kwadwo; Donkor, Mary

doi:10.1007/s10668-020-01124-y

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“…From the disclosures, URB promoted CO 2 emittances in the country. This result collaborates that of Musah et al (2020a), Wang et al (2019) and Saidi and Mbarek (2016), but conflicts that of Lin et al (2018) and Sadorsky (2014) who established an immaterial association between URB and the excretion of CO 2 in 16 emerging economies. The contradictory findings imply, the debate on URB-CO 2 excretion nexus is not over yet and demanded for further studies like ours.…”

Section: Urbanisation-co 2 Emission Nexussupporting

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The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO₂ emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

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Energy Exploration & Exploitation

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This study investigated the link between energy consumption (EC), foreign direct investments (FDI), urbanization (URB) and CO2 emissions in the emerging seven (E7) countries for the period 1991 to 2014. The exploration made a methodological contribution by employing modern econometric methods that are robust to the issues of cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity, so as to obtain valid and reliable outcomes. From the results, the panel under consideration was heterogeneous and cross-sectionally correlated. Also, the series were first differenced stationary and cointegrated in the long-run. The DCCEMG and the DCCEPMG estimators were engaged to explore the long-run elastic effects of the covariates on the response variable, and from the results, EC and URB were key promoters of CO2 effusions in the countries. However, FDI mitigated the emanation of CO2 in the nations. Additionally, economic growth (GDP) and population growth (POP) escalated the emittance of CO2 in the E7. On the D-H causality test outcomes, a feedback causality amid POP and CO2 effusions; GDP and CO2 excretions; FDI and CO2 emissivities; and between URB and CO2 secretions were discovered. Finally, a one-way causation from URB to the effluents of CO2 was unfolded. Based on the verdicts, policy suggestions were proposed to help abate the rate of CO2 exudations in the countries.

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Section: Urbanisation-co 2 Emission Nexussupporting

confidence: 83%

The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO₂ emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

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“…The study findings show that the expansion of urban areas significantly contributes to the carbon emission in the targeted economies. Musah et al (2021) have examined the linkage between carbon emission and urbanization for the West of Africa with the help of a range of statistical approaches. The study found a significant and positive impact of urbanization on CO2 emission in all the panel economies.…”

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The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

Huang

Sadiq

Chien

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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There is a shred of evidence of environmental degradation in the form of carbon emissions to behave differently when tested with different macroeconomic variables. This paper aims to examine the long-run and short-run association between natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission from the context of the USA during 1995-2015 with the help of a contemporary and innovative approach named quantile autoregressive distributed lagged model (QARDL). The stated approach is applied due to the fact that non-linearity is observed for the study variables. The findings indicated that the higher financial development (0.304), natural resource rent (0.102), and urbanization (0.489) have a positive impact on the environmental degradation in the region of USA during long-run estimation in the stated quantiles of the study. This would indicate that higher financial development, urbanization, and natural resources are putting more environmental pressure on the economy of the USA. Similarly, the findings under short-run estimation confirm that past and lagged values of carbon emission, financial development, natural resource rent, and urbanization are significantly determining the current values of the carbon emission. For this reason, it is suggested that the government requires some immediate steps of the USA to control the harmful effect of such financial development, more urbanization, and higher natural resource rent as well. This would indicate the reflection of some green strategies in all three explanatory variables to generate some fruitful environmental outcomes.

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“…Elsewhere, Wang et al (2017) showed that the urban population size has both an impact and a spatial spillover effect on carbon emissions in the province in a study of 30 prefecturelevel cities. Zhang et al (2013) showed that for every 1 km 2 increase in urban construction land on the East and West sides of the Hu Huanyong line, the average annual carbon emissions increased by 1.79 million t and 2.58 million t, respectively (Musah et al, 2021). The study examined the relationship between urbanization and carbon emissions in West Africa.…”

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The Coupling Relationship Between Urbanization and Carbon Emissions From Land Use in Ningxia

Huang¹,

Li²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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To understand the complex relationship between urbanization and carbon emissions, this study measures the urbanization level and land-use carbon emissions of 19 counties and districts in Ningxia from 2009 to 2019 using the integrated index method and carbon emission model, respectively, and explores the coupling relationship based on the coupling coordination degree model, to provide theoretical support for low-carbon urbanization and carbon emission reduction planning in Ningxia. The research results showed that the comprehensive evaluation index of the Ningxia urbanization system shows a linear increasing trend with an average annual growth of 1.6%, but the overall level is low, and the overall spatial pattern being high in the North and low in the South is shown. The dominant type of urbanization is population and economic urbanization. The average annual growth rate of net carbon emissions from land use in Ningxia is 4.75 106t/a. Spatially, it is characterized by higher levels in cities in the North along the Yellow River Ecological and Economic Zone and lower levels in the central arid zone and southern mountainous areas. The coupling degree and coupling coordination degree of Ningxia urbanization and land use carbon emissions show a fluctuating upward trend but belong to a low level of mutual constraints, i.e., the low level of development of Ningxia urbanization, backward industries, and low energy utilization lead to the growth of carbon emissions in Ningxia and restrict the development of urbanization. The government should take into account the regional differences when formulating carbon emission reduction policies to maintain appropriate population size, optimize the economic structure, and improve the land use efficiency.

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The connection between urbanization and carbon emissions: a panel evidence from West Africa

Cited by 92 publications

References 145 publications

The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO₂ emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO₂ emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

The Coupling Relationship Between Urbanization and Carbon Emissions From Land Use in Ningxia

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The connection between urbanization and carbon emissions: a panel evidence from West Africa

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The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO2 emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO2 emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

The impact of natural resource rent, financial development, and urbanization on carbon emission

The Coupling Relationship Between Urbanization and Carbon Emissions From Land Use in Ningxia

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The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO₂ emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries

The link between urbanization, energy consumption, foreign direct investments and CO₂ emanations: An empirical evidence from the emerging seven (E7) countries