Impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in emerging economy: Evidence from Pakistan

By Rafaqet Ali, K. Bakhsh, M. Yasin. Sustainable cities and society, 2019

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Abstract This study was designed to explore the impact of urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in Pakistan. The study employed time series data for the period 1972–2014. Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound testing approach to co-integration was employed for long run and short analysis and VECM model was used for causal analysis. Results showed that there was cointegation among the variables. Urbanization was found enhancing carbon emissions both in the long run and short run. Unidirectional short run causality existed from urbanization to carbon emissions. This study provided policy implications. Vehicular emissions can be reduced in urban areas by promoting public urban transportation system. Government interventions are required for adaptation of green technology by urban industrial and residential sectors and campaign should be launched to educate and train people regarding mitigation and adaptation with respect to environmental degradation.

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

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The asymmetric effect of public private partnership investment on transport CO2 emission in China: Evidence from quantile ARDL approach (2020, result): “This result is in line with the findings of Ali et al. (2019) for Pakistan, Salahuddin et al. (2019) for South Africa, Mahmood et al. (2020) Saudi Arabia, Liu and Bae (2018) for China.”
Nexus between Financial Development, Renewable Energy Consumption, Technological Innovations and CO2 Emissions: The Case of India (2021, background): “[84] in the case of Pakistan, and Bekhet and Othman [82] in the case of Malaysia.”
An empirical analysis of the determinants of CO2 emissions in ‎GCC countries (2020, background): “…causes of environmental degradation, such as deforestation (Berisso 1995; Baccini et al. 2012; Zambrano-Monserrate et al. 2018), population growth (Shaw 1989; Martínez-Zarzoso et al. 2007; Begum et al. 2015) and urbanization (Al-mulali and Ozturk, 2015; Brahmasrene and Lee 2017; Ali et al. 2019).”