Technology policy and environmental quality at crossroads: Designing SDG policies for select Asia Pacific countries

By Avik Sinha, Tuhin Sengupta, Tanaya Saha. 2020

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Abstract Since the inception of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Asia Pacific countries are facing difficulties in attaining the SDG objectives, as maintaining the environmental quality has been a challenge for them. In this study, we have revisited the technology policies of these countries, and in doing so, we have tried to address the problem of environmental degradation, while addressing the issues of sustainable economic growth, clean and affordable energy, and quality education. In this pursuit, we have designed two indices for environmental degradation and technological advancement, and then analyzed the association between them following the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Following IPAT framework, and by using quantile approach, over a period of 1990–2017, we have found that the turnaround points of EKCs rise with the rise in quantiles, i.e. quantiles with low pollutions are having turnaround points within sample range, whereas quantiles with high pollutions are having turnaround points outside sample range. Using Rolling Window Heterogeneous Panel Causality test, unidirectional causality has been found running from technological advancement to environmental degradation. Following the results obtained from the analysis, we have tried to address the objectives of SDG 13, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 9, SDG 7, and SDG 10.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering

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Decomposing Scale and Technique Effects of Financial Development and Foreign Direct Investment on Renewable Energy Consumption (2022, background): “However, it is not possible to switch to renewable energy solutions overnight, as it might cause harm to the economic growth pattern itself (Sinha et al. 2020 a, b).”
The role of information and communication technology in encountering environmental degradation: Proposing an SDG framework for the BRICS countries (2021, background): “The effective utilization of ICT sets out the foundations for emerging economies to imitate knowledge and information, improving connectivity worldwide, which increase their competitiveness through technology spillovers (Sinha et al., 2020).”
Impact of technological innovation on energy efficiency in industry 4.0 era: Moderation of shadow economy in sustainable development (2021, background): “The main reason behind using this index is its capability to encompass sectoral consumption of energy, and thereby, producing a wholesome form of energy efficiency (Sinha et al. 2020a).”
The asymmetric effect of public private partnership investment on transport CO2 emission in China: Evidence from quantile ARDL approach (2020, methodology): “…carbon emission is used as the dependent variable (following Yang et al., 2013), while the independent variables are economic growth (following Destek and Sinha, 2020), urbanization (following Sinha et al., 2017), and renewable energy consumption (following Sinha et al., 2018).”