Carbon curse in developed countries

Autor: Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Yassine Kirat, Mouez Fodha
Přispěvatelé: Paris School of Economics (PSE), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), ANR-17-EURE-001, ANR-17-EURE-0001,PGSE,Ecole d'Economie de Paris(2017)
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
carbon curse
Economics and Econometrics
carbon intensity
Resource (biology)
020209 energy
02 engineering and technology
Unit (housing)
0502 economics and business
Development economics
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Economics
050207 economics
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation/Q.Q3.Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Curse
05 social sciences
1. No poverty
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Natural resource
BRIC
resource-rich economies
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q53 - Air Pollution • Water Pollution • Noise • Hazardous Waste • Solid Waste • Recycling
General Energy
Climate change mitigation
13. Climate action
Developed country
Panel data
Zdroj: Energy Economics
Energy Economics, Elsevier, 2020, 90, pp.104829. ⟨10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104829⟩
ISSN: 0140-9883
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104829
Popis: International audience; Among the ten countries with the highest carbon intensity, six are natural resource-rich countries. This suggests the existence of a carbon curse: resource-rich countries would tend to follow more carbon-intensive development paths than resource-poor countries. We investigate this assumption empirically using a panel data method covering 29 countries (OECD and BRIC) and seven sectors over the 1995-2009 period. First, at the macroeconomic level, we find that the relationship between national CO 2 emissions per unit of GDP and abundance in natural resources is U-shaped. The carbon curse appears only after the turning point. Second, we measure the impact of resource abundance on sectoral emissions for two groups of countries based on their resource endowments. We show that a country rich in natural resources pollutes relatively more in resource-related sectors as well as all other sectors. Our results suggest that the debate on climate change mitigation should rather focus on a comparison of resource-rich countries versus resource-poor countries than the developed-country versus developing-country debate.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: