Effect of foreign direct investments, economic development and energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.

By S. Sarkodie, V. Strezov. Science of the Total Environment, 2019

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In accordance with the Sustainable Development Goal 17 of improving global partnership for sustainable development, this study examined the effect of foreign direct investment inflows, economic development, and energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions from 1982 to 2016 for the top five emitters of greenhouse gas emissions from fuel combustion in the developing countries, namely; China, India, Iran, Indonesia and South Africa. The study employed a panel data regression with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, U test estimation approach and panel quantile regression with non-additive fixed-effects. The study found a strong positive effect of energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and confirmed the validity of the pollution haven hypothesis. The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis is valid for China and Indonesia at a turning point of US$ 6014 and US$ 2999; second, a U-shape relationship is valid for India and South Africa at a turning point of US$ 1476 and US$ 7573. Foreign direct investment inflows with clean technological transfer and improvement in labour and environmental management practices will help developing countries to achieve the sustainable development goals. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions depends on enhanced energy efficiency, adoption of clean and modern energy technologies, such as renewable energy, nuclear, and the utilization of carbon capture and storage for fossil fuel and biomass energy generation processes.

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

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Economic development and pollution emissions in Singapore: Evidence in support of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis and its implications for regional sustainability (2020, background): “…Kuznets Curve (EKC), a hypothesized inverted U-shaped relationship between 14 indicators of environmental quality and economic growth, such as gross domestic product or income 15 per capita (Destek & Sarkodie, 2019; Grossman & Krueger, 1991, 1995), encapsulates this line of 16 thinking.”
Energy consumption, economic policy uncertainty and carbon emissions; causality evidence from resource rich economies (2020, methodology): “In opposition to models used in previous studies ( Sarkodie and Strezov, 2019; Destek and Sarkodie, 2019), the current study adopts the Panel Pooled Mean Group-Autoregressive Auto regressive distributed lag model (PMG-ARDL) model used in Sarkodie and Strezov (2018) and Bekun et al. (2019a), given…”