Carbon emission effect of energy transition and globalization: inference from the low-, lower middle-, upper middle-, an
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Carbon emission effect of energy transition and globalization: inference from the low-, lower middle-, upper middle-, and high-income economies Andrew Adewale Alola 1,2
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Udi Joshua 3
Received: 2 May 2020 / Accepted: 22 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The importance of income to environmental sustainability especially in the perspective of economic development has been rigorously examined in recent times. To further deepened the income-environmental sustainability narrative, the current study explore the cases of income-classified countries vis-à-vis the high-income, low-income, lower middle-income, and the upper middle-income countries and territories. As such, the current study examined the impact of renewable energy and fossil fuel energy consumption and globalization on CO2 emissions over the period of 1970 to 2014 for the case of (1) the panel of incomeclassified countries and territories and (2) the time series of each of the income-classification. By employing the Pooled Mean Group of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, the study found that fossil fuel consumption in the panel of examined income classification aggravates environmental hazards in both the short–long run, while the share of renewable energy usage improves the environmental quality only in the short run. Like the renewable energy consumption, globalization exacts negative and positive impacts in the short run and long run, respectively. From the second (time series) approach, the study found that fossil fuel energy worsen the environment in each of the fours income-categorized economies. Similarly, renewable energy usage exerts a significant and desirable impact on the environment in all but one (lower middle income) of the four income-categorized economies. However, globalization observably plays a significant and desirable role only in the lower middle-income economies. Hence, the study posits policy guide in the context of increased diversification of energy portfolio for each of the four income-categorized countries and territories especially the lower middle-income economies. Keywords Environmental sustainability . Renewables . Fossil fuel . Carbon emissions . Income-categorized economies
Introduction The debate on the relationship between economic transformation and energy usage is inexhaustible because of the Responsible editor: Nicholas Apergis * Andrew Adewale Alola [email protected] Udi Joshua [email protected] 1
Department of Economics and Finance, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Department of Financial Technologies, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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Department of Economic, Federal University Lokoja, P.M.B 1154, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria
peculiarity of the sector in promoting the course of economic advancement. Achieving and sustaining economic expansion and development remains the age-long key goal of every economy. Nations at different stages source for resources couple with key factors that could
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