Abstract
There has been a steady decline in carbon dioxide emissions in the world’s 19 most industrialized nations even as GDP has increased. These nations’ efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, therefore, to reduction of CO2 and development of renewable energy are the objective of this research. With the years 1995–2019 as a point of reference, we have selected gross domestic product, GDP, RE, industrial upgrading, and import and export as our independent variables. A panel nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) method is utilized to investigate the links between carbon dioxide emission and these independent variables. For the purpose of determining the direction of causation, the panel heterogeneous causality test is used. RE and standards of export and import were shown to be contributing variables in the decrease of carbon dioxide emissions. The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis was validated by the estimated findings. Increased carbon dioxide emissions are countered by the positive impulses of technological progress, such as R&D development spending and standards of import and export index. Industrial upgrading and emissions of carbon dioxide, gross domestic product and RE, and industrial upgrading and emissions of carbon dioxide, all have a bidirectional causal link. In particular, a one-way causality between gross domestic product and emissions of carbon dioxide, standards of imports and exports, and industrial upgrading, and industrial upgrading and standards of imports and exports is demonstrated. Following the results, policy suggestions are put out.
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Lu, L., Liu, Z., Mohsin, M. et al. Renewable energy, industrial upgradation, and import-export quality: green finance and CO2 emission reduction nexus. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 13327–13341 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22629-1
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