Mitigating energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina: the roles of renewable energy and economic globalization.

Autor: Murshed M; School of Business and Economics, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh. muntasir.murshed@northsouth.edu., Rashid S; School of Business and Economics, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh. seemran.rashid@northsouth.edu., Ulucak R; Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey., Dagar V; Amity School of Economics, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India, 201301., Rehman A; College of Economics and Management, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China., Alvarado R; Esai Business School, Universidad Espiritu Santo, Samborondon, 091650, Ecuador., Nathaniel SP; Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria.; School of Foundation, Lagos State University, Badagry, Nigeria.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international [Environ Sci Pollut Res Int] 2022 Mar; Vol. 29 (12), pp. 16939-16958. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 16.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16867-y
Abstrakt: The energy sector of Argentina is predominantly reliant on fossil fuels. Consequently, such fossil fuel dependency within the nation's power sector, in particular, has aggravated the environmental quality in Argentina by amplifying the nation's energy production-based carbon emission levels. However, keeping into consideration the international commitments pledged by Argentina under the Paris Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, it is pertinent for this South American country to curb its energy production-based emission of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. Against this milieu, this study examines the impacts of renewable electricity generation, economic globalization, economic growth, and urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions generated from the production of electricity and heat in the context of Argentina. Using annual frequency data from 1971 to 2016, recent econometric methods are applied to control for multiple structural breaks in the data. The major findings from the ecnometric analyses affirmed long-run associations between renewable electricity generation, economic globalization, economic growth, urbanization, and energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina. Besides, enhancing renewable electricity output shares is found to curb these emissions while economic globalization and urbanization are witnessed to boost them. Moreover, renewable electricity generation and economic globalization are found to jointly reduce the energy production-related carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina. The results also validate the authenticity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Finally, the causality analysis reveals evidence of unidirectional causalities running from renewable electricity generation, economic globalization, economic growth, and urbanization to energy production-related carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina. In line with these findings, this study recommends several viable policies which can be implemented to help Argentina control the growth of its energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions.
(© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
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