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. 2023 Mar;30(13):36190-36207.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-24457-9. Epub 2022 Dec 22.

Does globalization and energy usage influence carbon emissions in South Asia? An empirical revisit of the debate

Bosede Ngozi Adeleye  1 , Darlington Akam  2 , Nasiru Inuwa  3 , Henry Tumba James  4 , Denis Basila  5
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Does globalization and energy usage influence carbon emissions in South Asia? An empirical revisit of the debate

Bosede Ngozi Adeleye et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar.

Abstract

The 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 agenda hinges on attaining a sustainable environment with the need to "take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". Hence, this study empirically revisits the debate on the effect of nonrenewable energy and globalization on carbon emissions within the framework of the Kuznets hypothesis using an unbalanced panel data from seven South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) covering 1980-2019. The variables of interest are carbon emissions measured in metric tons per capita, energy use measured as kg of oil equivalent per capita, and globalization index. To address five main objectives, we deploy four techniques: panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE), feasible generalized least squares (FGLS), quantile regression (QR), and fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS). For the most part, the findings reveal that the (1) inverted U-shaped energy-Kuznets curve holds; (2) U-shaped globalization-Kuznets curve is evident; (3) inverted U-shaped turning points for nonrenewable energy are 496.03 and 640.84, while for globalization are 38.83 and 39.04, respectively; (4) globalization-emission relationship indicates a U-shaped relationship at the median and 75th quantile; and (5) inverted U-shaped energy-Kuznets holds in Pakistan but a U-shaped nexus prevails in Nepal and Sri Lanka; inverted U-shaped globalization-Kuznets holds in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, but U-shaped nexus is evident in Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal. Deductively, our results show that South Asia countries (at early stage of development) are faced with the hazardous substance that deteriorates human health. Moreover, the non-linear square term of the nonrenewable energy-emissions relationship is negative, which validates the inverted U-shaped EKC theory. Overall, the effect of energy and globalization on carbon emissions is opposite while the consistency at the 75th quantile result indicates that countries with intense globalization are prone to environmental degradation.

Keywords: Carbon emissions; Energy use; Globalization; Kuznets hypothesis; South Asia.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Turning points of nonrenewable energy and globalization index from PSCE technique. Source: Authors’ computations
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Turning points of nonrenewable energy and globalization index from FGLS technique. Source: Authors’ computations
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