scholarly journals Are Cross-Country Studies of the Environmental Kuznets Curve Misleading? New Evidence from Time Series Data for Germany

Author(s):  
Hannes Egli
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Wahid Murad ◽  
Abu Hanifa Md. Noman ◽  
Ilhan Ozturk

This study examines the impacts of income, energy consumption and population growth on CO2 emissions by employing an annual time series data for the period 1970-2012 for India, Indonesia, China, and Brazil. The study used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test approach considering both the linear and non-linear assumptions for related time series data for the top CO2 emitter emerging countries in both the short run and long run. The results show that CO2 emissions have increased statistically significantly with increases in income and energy consumption in all four countries. While the relationship between CO2 emissions and population growth was found to be statistically significant for India and Brazil, it has been statistically insignificant for China and Indonesia in both the short run and long run. Also, empirical observations from the testing of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis imply that in the cases of Brazil, China and Indonesia, CO2 emissions will decrease over the time when income increases. So based on the EKC findings, it can be argued that these three countries should not take any actions or policies, which might have conservative impacts on income, in order to reduce their CO2 emissions. But in the case of India, where CO2 emissions and income were found to have a positive relationship, an increase in income over the time will not reduce CO2 emissions in the country.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Tung Manh Ho ◽  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng

Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years’ time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The analyses of NO2, Ox, falling dust particle, and SOx highlight a trilemma among the growth of industrial firms, infrastructure development, and reducing air-quality degradation. Nevertheless, for CO emission per capita, its logarithm has a general declining trend when plotted against both average firm size growth and paved road area expansion. This finding sheds light on the possibility of developing a regulatory framework that can harmonize a low-carbon society with industrial and infrastructure development.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-246
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ameer Noor ◽  
Putu Mahardika Adi Saputra

Policymakers in the world are concerned with carbon emission due to the risk of global warming. Many studies on Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) consider carbon emission as a proxy of environmental degradation. This study aimed to investigate the existence of EKC and identify variations of relationships between carbon emissions and GDP per capita in ASEAN middle-income countries. The study was conducted on Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Malaysia based on 1971-2014 time series data using a simultaneous model (2SLS) for each country. The main variables studied were GDP per capita, square of GDP per capita, and carbon emission supported by other variables as the controlling variables. Validation on EKC existence was determined by GDP and GDP squared influence on carbon emission, while variations of relationship between GDP and carbon emission were based on the result of simultaneous regressions. The results showed that the existence of the EKC could not be validated in all countries because energy and transportation policies in each country failed to reduce the emission. On the other hand, carbon emission had a positive unidirectional influence on GDP in all countries. The effect of carbon emission coefficient to GDP showed that Thailand ranked the highest in CO2 efficiency, followed by Indonesia, Philippines, and Malaysia. This study recommended that carbon emission reduction policies in the four countries should focus more to easier access to environmentally friendly technology from developed countries for ensuring trade-offs between the economy and environment.


Water Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulhi Ridzuan

Abstract India is notorious for high inequality and high water pollution. There is a growing body of literature that says inequality is harmful to the environment, but it does not receive strong empirical support. We discuss some econometric problems that may have caused mixed findings in the empirical literature and use appropriate tools to overcome the problems. Our empirical results using Indian time-series data show (i) that inequality leads to an increase in water pollution, (ii) that the magnitude of inequality is nearly as large as that of corruption, suggesting that reducing inequality is as almost important as curbing corruption in addressing water pollution challenges in India, and (iii) that increases in water pollution, in turn, widen inequality in India. Our results are robust to various sensitivity checks. We also find no evidence of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for water pollution in India.


2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-268
Author(s):  
Mohammed Touitou

This study aimed at examining the Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Atmospheric pollution and economic growth in Algeria, in the period 1980–2017. As indicators of pollution emissions were chosen CO2 emissions per capita (PECO2), SO2 emissions per capita (PESO2), and NOx emissions per capita (PENOx). To prove these relations, we are using time series data in Vector Autoregression model supported by cointegration tests. The results indicated that the assumption of Environmental Kuznets curve was confirmed for the case of Algeria, where the mapping showed us a curve in inverse U-shape Environmental Kuznets curve characterized by a rising phase that peaked when the level GDP was highest to move to a new downward phase where environmental quality is improving over time. In terms of the direction of causality, we identified a causal relationship to Granger from GDP to the different emissions, which justifies that the implementation of a range of measures protecting the environmental quality of Algeria should be the top priority in the context of sustainable development and enhancing the long-run growth. To reduce pollution emissions, Algeria is called upon to increase significantly the use of renewable energies and the establishment of a more efficient energy policy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 1031-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyang Shuai ◽  
Xi Chen ◽  
Liyin Shen ◽  
Liudan Jiao ◽  
Ya Wu ◽  
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