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Influence of access to clean fuels and technology, food production index, consumer price index, and income on greenhouse gas emissions from food system: evidence from developed countries

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Sustainable development objectives heavily promote the advancement of cleaner production technologies to reduce emissions and conserve the average world temperature. For the years 1990–2020, the USA, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and Australia are studied by using the panel fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS). The results show that clean fuels and technologies and a consumer price index are helpful to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food system which reduce environmental degradation. Contrarily, increased income and food production contribute to environmental deterioration. There are bidirectional Dumitrescu-Hurlin causal relationships between access to clean fuels and technology and greenhouse gas emissions from food system; real income and greenhouse gas emissions from food system; income and access to clean fuels and technology; income and consumer price index; and income and food production index. This research also revealed a unidirectional causation between the consumer price index and greenhouse gas emissions from food system; food production index and greenhouse gas emissions from food system; access to clean fuels and technology and the consumer price index; and access to clean fuels and technology and the food production index. These findings provide policymakers with relevant content: to promote the goal of green growth, the government should implement consistent measures to subsidize the food industry. Incorporating carbon pricing into food system emissions models would serve to lower production of polluting foods, which would enhance air quality indicators. Finally, a consumer price index should be controlled by controlling prices of green technologies in environmental modeling to improve sustainable development globally and reduce environmental pollution.

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Abbreviations

FMOLS:

Fully modified ordinary least square

ACFT:

Access to clean fuels and technology

FPI:

Food production index

CPI:

Consumer price index

GDP:

Real income

GHG:

Greenhouse gas emissions

OWID:

Our World in data

PP:

Phillips Perron

Kts:

Kilo tons

δ:

Coefficients

CD:

Cross-sectional dependence

LM:

Lagrange multiplier

CO2 :

Carbon dioxide emissions

FMOLS:

Fully modified ordinary least square

ε:

Residual

ADF:

Augmented Dickey-Fuller

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The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to remaining unpublished work but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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This study received financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72243005) and the Key Program of National Social Science Fund of China (21AZD067).

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  1. School of Finance & Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, Jiangsu, China

    Gulzara Tariq, Huaping Sun & Imad Ali

  2. School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, Jiangsu, China

    Sajjad Ali

  3. Department of Statistics, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Qasim Shah

  4. School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China

    Huaping Sun

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Gulzara Tariq: conceptualization, methodology, and analysis; Huaping Sun: conceptualization and methodology; Sajjad Ali: validation and investigation; Imad Ali: investigation and visualization; Qasim Shah: formal analysis and methodology.

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Tariq, G., Sun, H., Ali, I. et al. Influence of access to clean fuels and technology, food production index, consumer price index, and income on greenhouse gas emissions from food system: evidence from developed countries. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 59528–59539 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26628-8

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