The role of nuclear energy in the correction of environmental pollution: Evidence from Pakistan
By N. Mahmood, Zhaohua Wang, Bin Zhang. 2020
137 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract The global warming phenomenon emerges from the issue of climate change, which attracts the attention of intellectuals towards clean energy sources from dirty energy sources. Among clean sources, nuclear energy is getting immense attention among policymakers. However, the role of nuclear energy in pollution emissions reduction has remained inconclusive and demand for further investigation. Therefore, the current study contributes to extend knowledge by investigating the nexus between nuclear energy, economic growth, and CO2 emissions in a developing country context such as Pakistan for the period between 1973 and 2017. The auto-regressive distributive lag model summarizes the nuclear energy has negative effect on environmental pollution as it releases carbon emission in the environment. Moreover, vector error correction Granger causality provides evidence for bidirectional causality between nuclear energy and carbon emissions. These interesting findings provide new insight, and policy guidelines provided based on these results.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/35e97ab984e55d4772e1d8a2c6d1d2966c88e3fa
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Economics and Econometrics
In Pollution
In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Citations in the corpus
- Is nuclear energy a better alternative for mitigating CO2 emissions in BRICS countries? An empirical analysis (2020, background): “Nuclear energy causes to harm the environment [15] and more radioactive waste has a serious impact on humans and the environment as well [17,18].”