Analysis of the impact of renewable energy consumption and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions in 12 MENA countries

This paper examines the impact of renewable energy consumption, economic growth, foreign direct investment inflows and trade on carbon dioxide emissions for a panel of 12 Middle East and North Africa countries over the period 1980–2012 using the recent Panel Vector Autoregressive model with multi-do...

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Published inClean technologies and environmental policy Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 871 - 885
Main Authors Kahia, Montassar, Ben Jebli, Mehdi, Belloumi, Mounir
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Alternative energy
Autoregressive models
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emissions
Clean technology
Earth and Environmental Science
Economic analysis
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic models
Economics
Emissions trading
Energy consumption
Energy resources
Energy sources
Environment
Environmental degradation
Environmental Economics
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Environmental policy
Environmental quality
Foreign investment
Impact analysis
Industrial and Production Engineering
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
International trade
Investment
Original Paper
Renewable energy
Renewable resources
Sustainable Development
Middle East
North Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Panel vector error correction model
Renewable energy
CO
Economic growth
emissions
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Summary:This paper examines the impact of renewable energy consumption, economic growth, foreign direct investment inflows and trade on carbon dioxide emissions for a panel of 12 Middle East and North Africa countries over the period 1980–2012 using the recent Panel Vector Autoregressive model with multi-domain analysis framework. The results from Granger causality test reveal a bidirectional causality relationship between the candidate variables supporting the feedback hypothesis. The findings show that economic growth leads to environmental degradation while renewable energy, international trade and foreign direct investment inflows lead to decreases carbon dioxide emissions. A serious shift toward using more renewable energy resources, international trade and foreign direct investment inward is recommended to improve the environmental quality and attain the sustainable growth in the region. Graphical abstract
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ISSN:1618-954X
1618-9558
DOI:10.1007/s10098-019-01676-2