Exploring the nature of EKC hypothesis in Asia's top emitters: role of human capital, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption.

Autor: Jena PK; School of Economics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, India. pabitrakumarjena@gmail.com., Mujtaba A; School of Economics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, India., Joshi DPP; School of Economics, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, 768004, Odisha, India., Satrovic E; Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep, Türkiye., Adeleye BN; Department of Economics and Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international [Environ Sci Pollut Res Int] 2022 Dec; Vol. 29 (59), pp. 88557-88576. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 14.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21551-w
Abstrakt: The present study uses both carbon dioxide emission and ecological footprints as proxies for environmental degradation to examine the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the top three emitters from Asia, i.e., China, India, and Japan. To this end, the autoregressive distributed lag model for time series and panel estimation is used for a period spanning over 1980-2016. For carbon dioxide emission, China presents an inverted-U shape of the environmental Kuznets curve, while a U-shape relationship is found for India and Japan. Similarly, when the hypothesis is tested with the ecological footprint, Japan offers an inverted U-shape and U-shaped association is detected for China and India. The panel analysis indicates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve with both proxies of environmental degradation. Besides, human capital and renewable energy promote environmental sustainability, while non-renewable energy use hinders environmental quality. The findings of this study suggest that in order to meet the combined goals of economic growth and environmental protection, the three economies, i.e., China, India, and Japan, should employ renewable energy-enabled technology.
(© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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