TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in CO 2 emissions
T2 - a disaggregate analysis of Pakistan
AU - Zaidi, Syed Anees Haider
AU - Danish,
AU - Hou, Fujun
AU - Mirza, Faisal Mehmood
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - The energy sector has become the largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Among these GHG emissions, most threatening is CO 2 emission which comes from the consumption of fossil fuels. This empirical work analyzes the roles of renewable energy consumption and non-renewable energy consumption in CO 2 emissions in Pakistan. The empirical evidence is based on an auto-regressive distributive lag (ARDL) model of data from 1970 to 2016. The disaggregate analysis reveals that renewable energy consumption has an insignificant impact on CO 2 emission in Pakistan and that, in the non-renewable energy model, natural gas and coal are the main contributors to the level of pollution in Pakistan. Economic growth positively contributes to CO 2 emission in the renewable energy model but not in the non-renewable energy model. Policies that emphasize the contribution of renewable energy to economic growth and that add more clean energy into the energy mix are suggested.
AB - The energy sector has become the largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Among these GHG emissions, most threatening is CO 2 emission which comes from the consumption of fossil fuels. This empirical work analyzes the roles of renewable energy consumption and non-renewable energy consumption in CO 2 emissions in Pakistan. The empirical evidence is based on an auto-regressive distributive lag (ARDL) model of data from 1970 to 2016. The disaggregate analysis reveals that renewable energy consumption has an insignificant impact on CO 2 emission in Pakistan and that, in the non-renewable energy model, natural gas and coal are the main contributors to the level of pollution in Pakistan. Economic growth positively contributes to CO 2 emission in the renewable energy model but not in the non-renewable energy model. Policies that emphasize the contribution of renewable energy to economic growth and that add more clean energy into the energy mix are suggested.
KW - ARDL
KW - Disaggregate analysis
KW - Economic growth
KW - Non-renewable energy
KW - Renewable energy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85053563506
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-018-3059-y
DO - 10.1007/s11356-018-3059-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 30206833
AN - SCOPUS:85053563506
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 25
SP - 31616
EP - 31629
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 31
ER -
