CO2 emission; human capital; renewable energy; Capital inflows; Carbon A; Carbon emissions; CO 2 emission; Economic development; Foreign capital; Human capitals; Long-term relationships; Renewable energies; Research and development; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Building and Construction; Fuel Technology; Engineering (miscellaneous); Energy Engineering and Power Technology; Energy (miscellaneous); Control and Optimization; Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract :
[en] This study examines the long-term relationship between carbon emissions and a number of researchers engaged in Research and Development (R&D), economic development, foreign capital inflows, renewable energy and population growth in 26 countries between 1995 and 2015. Pedroni’s panel cointegration test confirms the cointegrating relationship between the variables. Long-term elasticities are derived from FMOLS regression. Researchers in R&D and renewable energy are negatively and significantly related to carbon emissions. There is a positive and significant long-term relationship between GDPs per capita and CO2 and between the FDI and CO2. Dumitrescu and Hurlin’s panel causality test revealed unidirectional causality running from economic development to carbon emissions and feedback hypotheses between the FDI and CO2 and between renewable energy and CO2.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Mentel, Grzegorz ; Marine Offshore Renewable Energy Lab (MOREnergy Lab), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Tarczyński, Waldemar ; Department of Sustainable Finance and Capital Markets, Institute of Economics and Finance, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement ; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic ; Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abdurakmanov, Kalandar; Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Zakirova, Elina; Institute of Additional Education, Ural State University of Economics, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Salahodjaev, Raufhon; Center for Research in Social Sciences, AKFA University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ; Department of Research, ERGO Analytics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ; Department of Mathematical Method in Economics, Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Language :
English
Title :
R&D Human Capital, Renewable Energy and CO2 Emissions: Evidence from 26 Countries
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