The relationship between urbanization, energy use and carbon emissions: evidence from a panel of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries

Wang, Yuan; Chen, Lili; Kubota, Jumpei

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.041

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“…Moreover, the study concludes that energy consumption, FDI and income are the key determinants of CO 2 emissions in Vietnam. Similarly, Wang et al (2016) Employing autoregressive distributive lag estimation, they find that FDI increases emissions in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines; however, there appears to be an inverse relationship between FDI and pollution in Indonesia. Atici (2012) examines the interaction between trade and the environment in terms of carbon emissions for the group of ASEAN countries.…”

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The effects of FDI, economic growth and energy consumption on carbon emissions in ASEAN-5: Evidence from panel quantile regression

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This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth and energy consumption on carbon emissions in five selected member countries in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN-5), including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. This paper employs a panel quantile regression model that takes unobserved individual heterogeneity and distributional heterogeneity into consideration. Moreover, to avoid an omitted variable bias, certain related control variables are included in our model. Our empirical results show that the effect of the independent variables on carbon emissions is heterogeneous across quantiles.Specifically, the effect of FDI on carbon emissions is negative, except at the 5th quantile, and becomes significant at higher quantiles. Energy consumption increases carbon emissions, with the strongest effects occurring at higher quantiles. Among the high-emissions countries, greater economic growth and population size appear to reduce emissions. The results of the study also support the validity of the halo effect hypothesis in higher-emissions countries. However, we find little evidence in support of an inverted U-shaped curve in the ASEAN-5 countries. In addition, a higher level of trade openness can mitigate the increase in carbon emissions, especially in low-and high-emissions nations. Finally, the results of the study also provide policymakers with important policy recommendations.

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The effects of FDI, economic growth and energy consumption on carbon emissions in ASEAN-5: Evidence from panel quantile regression

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“…The rapid growth of urbanization and trade openness in developing countries has attracted much attention on ICT development, trade, industrial activities, urban cities development and financial activities. Moreover, many countries also increase mass transit services and public transportations based on electronically functional (Wang et al 2015). These capacities has encouraged not only domestic economic activities, but has also increased imports and exports volumes (Srinivasan 2013, Cerdeira Bento andMoutinho 2016).…”

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Estimation of electricity demand function for Algeria: Revisit of time series analysis

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Shahbaz

Mallick

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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This paper aims to empirically re-examine whether economic growth has effect on electricity consumption for Algerian economy. We have incorporated urbanisation and trade openness in electricity demand function as additional determinants of electrictyy consumption for the period of 1971-2012. For empirical purpose, we have applied the recently developed combined cointegration test proposed by Bayer and Hanck (2013) and bounds testing approach to cointegration by Pesaran et al. (2001) for establishing the cointegration between the variables by accomodating structural breaks.The results expose that income growth leads to higher electricity demand along with urbanization being another major contributing factor of rising electricity demand. In contrast, trade openness leads to reduce electricity demand. The causal association between the variables is further exmained with the application of innovation accounting approach of Vector Autoregressive (VAR). The empirical evidnce inidactes the presence of the neutral effect between income growth and electricity use. Urbanization causes electricity use and electricity use causes urbaniation in Granger sense.

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“…The studies of Dasgupta et al (2002), Stern (2004), Dinda (2004), Brock and Taylor (2005), Carson (2010), Chowdhury and Moran (2012) and de Ribeiro and Kruglianskas, 2015 among others, provide extensive review surveys of the literature which tested the economic growth-environmental pollution nexus and the EKC hypothesis. There is an increasing progress of researches on air or water pollution, deforestation, diversity and indicators of environmental amenities up until for some recent findings around the world (e. g. Kaika and Zervas, 2013;Katz, 2015;Wang et al, 2015Wang et al, , 2016a, also in China (e. g. Xu and Lin, 2015;Yao et al, 2016;Hao and Liu, 2016;Wang et al, 2016b). However, researches on the relationship between agriculture-related pollution and economic growth are relatively scanty (Shortle and Abler, 2001;Aftab et al, 2010), few of which were related to Environmental Kuznets Curve.…”

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Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China

Cheng

huilu

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tGlobal livestock and poultry industry is growing continuously, with large amounts of excreta produced. These wastes could be either important anaerobic fermentation materials of biogas energy or, if discharged into the environment without appropriate processing, serious pollution sources to soil and water systems. In developing countries, rural energy poverty is currently a major threat to sustainable development and livelihoods. Hence, the availability of clean, affordable and reliable energy is of significant concern in both policy and scholarly circles. Moreover, pollutants related with animal husbandry have been identified as one of the dominant contributors to contamination of water systems, such as surface water eutrophication and groundwater nitrate enrichment. Consequently, assessing waste from livestock and poultry breeding and the associated biogas systems is of critical essence in rural energy and environmental decision-making. The present study concentrates on a Chinese context and attempts to explicitly investigate Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) applying heterogeneous panel cointegration methods, combining with distribution and characteristics of waste from livestock and poultry breeding for China's 31 provincial economies from 1991 to 2013. And, potentiality of biogas energy and its CO 2 emission reduction based on the utilization of waste is assessed. The empirical results indicate an inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve in N indicator resulting from livestock and poultry breeding, where value of the turning point is approximately CNY 51,800. With economic growth and consumptive change, problems arising from animal husbandry mode can be increasingly great. There will be many major challenges to address these special environmental issues in rural area, especially in Central China and West China. Biogas production by animal excreta could be one of the most important rural energies and waste treatment patterns, which could reach 63.65 billion m 3 in 2013, equivalent to approximately 20% of natural gas used, and might offer a GHG reduction of more than 220 million tons of CO 2 eq. China should assign greater importance to special agricultural pollution and energy options in rural communities, in addition to 'beautiful countryside' propaganda.

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The relationship between urbanization, energy use and carbon emissions: evidence from a panel of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries

Cited by 248 publications

References 44 publications

The effects of FDI, economic growth and energy consumption on carbon emissions in ASEAN-5: Evidence from panel quantile regression

The effects of FDI, economic growth and energy consumption on carbon emissions in ASEAN-5: Evidence from panel quantile regression

Estimation of electricity demand function for Algeria: Revisit of time series analysis

Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China

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