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The effects of Environmental Kuznets Curve toward environmental pollution, energy consumption on sustainable economic growth through moderate role of technological innovation

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Abstract

South Asia is a hub for encompassing air contamination, with 37 of the top tiers of the 40 most contaminated urban communities around the globe (IQAIR, 2020). From this perspective, this research aims to explore the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve while controlling for the impacts of technological innovation and energy consumption on the sustainable economic growth–environmental pollution nexus in the backdrop of South Asian economies by using panel dataset from 1998 to 2018. Therefore, this analysis adopts a fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) approach for examination, which affirms the EKC hypothesis existence, suggesting that the environment in South Asia is deteriorating while technological innovations have moderated the impact. Moreover, the empirical findings indicate that energy consumption as well as technological innovations both have a significant positive impact on the CO2 emanations, which harms biodiversity.

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  1. Grossman and Krueger, 1991

  2. Multiple unit root tests, according to Maddala and Wu (1999), may be used to monitor the issue of individual regression errors through cross-sections.

  3. Based on Engle and Granger (1987).

  4. The investigations of Khan and Ullah (2019); Shahbaz et al. (2017b) and Shahbaz et al. (2017a) have obtained the same empirical findings.

  5. The researches Saboori and Sulaiman (2013a, b); Nasreen et al. (2017); Liu and Dietz (2007); Tao et al. (2008), Soytas and Sari (2003), Shahbaz et al. (2012); Ahmed et al. (2017a, b) and have observed the similar findings.

  6. Ahmed et. al. (2017 b) study observed the same findings.

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  1. Department of Management, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, China

    Zhaomin Zhang

  2. Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Tadadus Bashir & Shahab Aziz

  3. Department of Economics and Trade, Qingdao City University, China, Qingdao, China

    Jiaxuan Song

  4. Department of Economics, University of Azad Jumma Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan

    Ghulam Yahya

  5. Department of Governance and Public Policy, National Defence University Islamabad, Pakistan, National Defence University Islamabad, Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Sana Bashir

  6. Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

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Zhang, Z., Bashir, T., Song, J. et al. The effects of Environmental Kuznets Curve toward environmental pollution, energy consumption on sustainable economic growth through moderate role of technological innovation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 405–416 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16956-y

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