Urbanization, openness, emissions, and energy intensity: A study of increasingly urbanized emerging economies

By Shuddhasattwa Rafiq, Ruhul Salim, I. Nielsen. 2016

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This paper analyses the impact of urbanization and trade openness on emissions and energy intensity in twenty-two increasingly urbanized emerging economies. We employ three second-generation heterogeneous linear panel models as well as recently developed nonlinear panel estimation techniques allowing for cross-sectional dependence. The empirical results show that population density and affluence increase emissions and energy intensity while renewable energy seems to be dormant in these emerging economies, but non-renewable energy increases both CO2 emissions and energy intensity. In addition, openness significantly reduces both pollutant emissions and energy intensity whereas urbanization significantly increases energy intensity, but it is insignificant in increasing emissions. This may be, in part, due to the recent increasing trend in adopting cleaner technologies in these increasingly urbanized developing economies.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Testing the role of urban development in the conventional Environmental Kuznets Curve: evidence from Turkey (2018, background): “Environmental costs have increased to address concerns about the quality of rapidly growing urban environments (Rafiq et al., 2016; Anderson, Kanaroglou, and Miller 1996).”
The direct and indirect effect of urbanization on energy intensity: A province-level study for China (2017, background): “Likewise, York (2007)[13] and Rafiq et al. (2016)[22] find similar effects with significant and positive elasticities for urbanization for the 14 EU countries and 22 emerging countries respectively.”
Financing Renewable Energy Projects in Major Emerging Market Economies: Evidence in the Perspective of Sustainable Economic Development (2017, background): “However, Shafiei and Salim (2014) find renewable energy consumption reduce CO2 emissions, whereas nonrenewable energy consumption increases in 29 OECD countries over the period 1980-2011.”
Sorption heat storage for long-term low-temperature applications: A review on the advancements at material and prototype scale (2017, background): “37 GJ/m(3) assuming a material density of 630 kg/m(3) [2].”