Tourism-induced pollution emission amidst energy mix: evidence from Nigeria

Sustainable Development

2022

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It is commonly argued in what is termed the degrowth strategy that economic growth cannot occur side by side with environmental protection. In this study, it is instead argued that the spread of green products through economic complexity and international trade are possible means of solving this problem. To this end, the individual and interactive environmental impacts of economic complexity and international green trade are examined in a panel of 24 European Union nations between 2000 and 2018. Panel quantile regressions (QRs) and Driscoll-Kraay fixed effect-OLS

Section: Empirical Results and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

The synergistic effect of green trade and economic complexity on sustainable environment: A new perspective on the economic and ecological components of sustainable development

Olasehinde‐Williams

Sustainable Development

2022

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“…In the context of clean energy and ecological sustainability, environmental taxes can play a significant role in incentivizing or constraining the adoption and use of these energy sources. On the one hand, environmental taxes can provide a financial incentive for individuals and businesses to switch to clean energy sources as the cost of using fossil fuels and other polluting energy sources increases (Ambhore and Ofori 2023;Gyamfi et al 2022a;Ofori et al 2023;Adebayo et al 2022;Steve et al 2022;Bamidele et al 2022). On the other hand, the implementation of environmental taxes can also pose challenges and trade-offs, such as the potential for increased energy costs for consumers and the need for effective policy design and implementation to ensure that the taxes are effective in achieving their goals.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can environmental taxes and green-energy offer carbon-free E7 economies? An empirical analysis in the framework of COP-26

Sarpong

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The main cause of environmental degradation is carbon emissions, which puts environmental sustainability in jeopardy. This ecological worry, the obligation for which falls on all economic actors, has not gone undetected, and so in 2021, the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP: 26) was organized, with the primary aim of decreasing global carbon emissions. Because the Post-Glasgow Agreement goals represent a significant challenge to achieving ecological responsibility, pressure is applied to the participating nations. However, earlier literature lacked sufficient investigation of factors useful for the mitigation of carbon emissions in E7 (China, Turkey, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico) economies. Hence, we aim to fill this research vacuum by predicting the impact of clean fuels and cooking technology availability, renewable energy, and environmental taxes on E7 economies’ carbon emissions from 2000 to 2020, while taking urbanization and population expansion into account. Evaluation is done using four different cross-sectional dependence (CSD) methods, as well as unit root tests (CIPS and CADF), cointegration analysis (Westerlund and Kao), and the Driscoll-Kraay and quantile-on-quantile long-run factor estimate methods. The long-run analysis revealed from our findings that environmental tax, renewable energy, and access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking decrease carbon emission for the E7 economies. On the other hand, urbanization and population growth enhance emissions for the E7 economies. Finally, our results hold up under a variety of policy interpretations that would aid in reducing carbon emissions and their negative effects on the environment.

“…Renewable energy use is negatively significant to emissions levels in all the blocs which is a good outcome pointing to the importance of renewable utilization as a viable option to fossil energy use in the bloc. This position has been upheld in some studies (Adebayo et al, 2022;Bamidele et al, 2022;Bekun, 2022;Onifade et al, 2021Steve et al, 2022). The effect of economic growth is however different as this factor triggers pollution across the bloc.…”

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confidence: 99%

Synthesizing the impacts of information and communication technology advancement and educational developments on environmental sustainability: A comparative analyses of three economic blocs—BRICS, MINT, and G7 economies

Sustainable Development

Onifade

Ofori

2022

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In the wake of the growing threats to humanity from climate change, we analyzed the information and communications technology (ICT)/education-environmental nexus from three distinct blocs including BRICS, MINT, and the G7 economies between 1990 and 2020. Two models were examined to reach the study's objectives.The first model evaluates whether education and ICT are essential for environmental sustainability via potential reduction in carbon emission. On the other hand, the second model fills an existing gap in extant studies by examining the prospect of education and ICT in influencing citizens on the importance of transition to renewable energy usage. Driscoll and Kraay estimator was employed as a panacea tool for cross-sectional dependence and slope homogeneity while the fixed effect approach provides sufficient robustness checks on the findings. While some outcomes vary per bloc, others are relatively similar across the three blocs. Education level in school enrollment perspectives shows a negative significant pollution reduction effect across the three blocs, while only the G7 bloc performed better from human capital perspectives. The combined sample bloc shows that ICT also significantly reduces carbon emission, however, an individual bloc analysis refutes this stance for the MINT bloc. Additionally, while renewable energy cushions emissions in all the blocs, rapid urbanization, shows a positive CO 2 emission impact except in the G7 bloc. Last, ICT and education significantly boost renewable energy usage only in the G7. Hence, governments and stakeholders in the blocs should gravitate toward greater investments in quality education and greener ICT infrastructures for a sustainable environment.