The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in CO                         2                          emissions: a disaggregate analysis of Pakistan

Syed Anees Haider Zaidi; Danish; Fujun Hou; Faisal Mehmood Mirza

doi:10.1007/s11356-018-3059-y

The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in CO ₂ emissions: a disaggregate analysis of Pakistan

Syed Anees Haider Zaidi
, Danish
, Fujun Hou^*
, Faisal Mehmood Mirza

^*Corresponding author for this work

Beijing Institute of Technology
COMSATS University Islamabad
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
University of Gujrat

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	31616-31629
Number of pages	14
Journal	Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Volume	25
Issue number	31
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3059-y
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2018

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

ARDL
Disaggregate analysis
Economic growth
Non-renewable energy
Renewable energy

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The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in CO ₂ emissions: a disaggregate analysis of Pakistan. / Zaidi, Syed Anees Haider; Danish, ; Hou, Fujun et al.
In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Vol. 25, No. 31, 01.11.2018, p. 31616-31629.

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