Environmental pollution is becoming an urgent global issue. Countries are implementing various solutions and establishing legal frameworks and institutional policies to promote the use of green energy sources and thereby minimize the adverse environmental impact of economic growth, investment, and consumption. The goal of economies worldwide, including in Asia, is to implement policies that promote sustainable development while optimizing economic performance. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of green energy consumption and institutional quality on environmental quality. Using data from 29 selected Asian countries over the period 1970–2021, the empirical results indicate that green energy consumption does not have a statistically significant impact on environmental quality across the full sample. Improvements in institutional quality can enhance environmental quality and accelerate progress toward carbon neutrality and net-zero emissions targets. The Climate Change Conferences (COPs) have helped raise global awareness of the dangers of climate change, fostering greater international cooperation to protect the planet and promote sustainable development. To capture the influence of international climate commitments, this study employs a dummy variable for the COP period (coded 0 before COP2 in 1996 and 1 thereafter). This variable is interacted with green energy consumption and institutional quality to examine whether the implementation of COP commitments moderates their effects on CO2 emissions. The empirical results show that greater political stability, particularly during the implementation of carbon emission reduction commitments, contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting sustainable development. The study also confirms that institutional quality plays a significant role in improving environmental quality and accelerating countries’ progress toward carbon neutrality and net-zero emission goals.
Against the background of global carbon neutrality, environmental governance and climate action, energy transition has become a core strategy to balance low-carbon environmental protection and high-quality economic growth. Using panel data of 28 global economies from 2010 to 2024, this paper examines how energy transition (renewable energy development and energy efficiency) drives economic growth and improves environmental quality, with a focus on its environmental benefits, carbon reduction effects and regional heterogeneity. We introduce CO
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emissions per capita and carbon intensity (CO
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/GDP) as direct environmental dependent variables into the panel regression framework. Results show that energy transition significantly promotes economic growth while reducing carbon emissions and improving environmental quality. The effect is stronger in developed economies. Economic complexity and energy financing positively moderate the link, while geopolitical risk negatively moderates it. Emerging green technologies further enhance both economic benefits and environmental performance. This study enriches the theory of energy transition-environment-economy synergy and provides a reference for countries to achieve low-carbon development, environmental governance and sustainable growth.
Yuhao Gu, Han Lai· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
Against global sustainable development strategies and China's dual-carbon targets, green ecological governance has become a core driver of high-quality economic growth. Grounded in environmental and institutional economics, this study builds a four-dimensional theoretical framework. Using panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2013 to 2024, it takes green total factor productivity (GTFP) as the core indicator to empirically examine the impact and transmission paths of green ecological governance on sustainable economic development.Results show that green ecological governance significantly fosters sustainable economic development. Both green innovation and industrial structure upgrading play partial mediating roles, with green innovation exerting a stronger driving effect. Digital environmental governance produces a positive moderating effect, and the promotion effect is more evident in eastern regions and highly digitalized areas. Targeted strategies are proposed to support coordinated progress between ecological protection and high-quality economic growth.
Yuhao Gu, Hui Zhang· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
Greening industrialization is critical to balancing the crux between MINT's economic progress and environmental sustainability. However, the governance trajectory to improving climate action performance while achieving sustainable industrialization remains elusive, with no empirical consensus on their relationship. This study examines the intervening influence of governance quality and its economic, political, and institutional dynamics on the link between industrialization and environmental sustainability in MINT countries between 2000 and 2023. Premised on the EKC hypothesis, the study employs the Panel Corrected Standard Error (PCSE) to analyse the relationship. The empirical results show that the EKC hypothesis did not hold for MINT countries, and industrialization significantly worsens climate action performance. Also, quality country governance mitigates the effects of industrialization on climate-action performance, with political governance exhibiting the most significant influence. Policy regulators in MINT countries need to strengthen governance mechanisms to ensure sustainable industrial production practices through effective regulations and corruption-free structures to diminish the impact of industrialization on MINT's environmental sustainability. The study contributed to the literature by employing a novel dataset on sustainability performance to advance knowledge on the strategic ways to tackle industrialization-induced climate crisis through strong governance mechanisms in MINT countries.
A. Olohunlana· International Journal of App...· 0 citations
For decades, environmental degradation has become a universal challenge, and for sustainable environmental quality requires
an accurate and broader proxy for proper assessment. Pakistan faces serious environmental challenges due to rising emissions,
rapid urbanization and heavy reliance on fossil fuels. Several studies used carbon and methane emissions to analyze the global
warming issues, these measures provide only a partial view of environmental quality. Therefore, the current study examines the
effect of foreign direct investment, renewable energy consumption and natural resources rent on ecological footprint by applying
the ARDL-ECM model to Pakistan’s yearly data from 1985 to 2024. The empirical findings show that among all explanatory
variables, renewable energy consumption has a significant negative impact on the ecological footprint, indicating that higher
use of renewable energy helps reduce environmental pressure. Whereas natural resource rent and FDI have contributed
positively to ecological footprint. Finally, the results suggest that increasing renewable energy consumption is the most effective
way to reduce environmental pressure in Pakistan's economy.
Keywords: Environmental degradation, Ecological footprint, overshoot.
Zafar Iqbal, Sayed Irshad Hussain· Journal of Sustainable and E...· 0 citations
Here, changes in sustainability are assessed using statistical data for all countries between 1990 and 2015, with a focus on the fifteen most populous countries. The indicators used cover GDP for the economy; poverty, education, and health for human capabilities; as well as environmental impacts on water, climate, air, and bioresources. An authoritative model is used to describe the environmental impacts, resulting from pressures driven by population and affluence; and responses, through decreasing resource intensity, measured by the resource use per GDP, and improving environmental efficiency, defined as emissions per resource use. Resource intensity decreases in most countries. Environmental efficiency improves for wastewater and NOx, hardly changes for CO2, and increases in nature protection areas, but this rarely compensates for deforestation. The combination of pressures and responses reduced water pollution and air pollution, and mitigated climate change in high-income countries, but did not reduce the degradation of biodiversity. While the pressures, responses, and environmental impacts of economic growth vary across all countries, twenty-five growing economies have reduced those environmental impacts. Changes toward sustainability are discussed with regard to the growing share of services in economies in the ‘EKC hypothesis’, innovation for achieving higher value at lower impact in the ‘green growth’ idea, and regulations that lead to profitable environmental investments in the ‘Porter hypothesis’. Combined, they only partially explain the changes because they ignore the low prices of natural resources and high shareholder consumption. Additionally, regulations are needed that increase the price of environmental impacts relative to the price of man-made resources and enforce high-quality performance standards.
Y. Krozer, Frans Coenen, Sebastian Bykuć· Sustainability· 0 citations
Against the backdrop of global instability in energy and resource markets, ensuring the environmentally balanced development of national economies has become a top priority. For Ukraine,
which has overcome the consequences of the armed conflict, remains dependent on fossil fuels, and
is integrated into the European energy system, this task is complicated by many factors. The fragmentation of environmental regulations, the obsolescence of industrial infrastructure, and poor
coordination among government agencies are hindering the transition to a “green” economic
model. The aim of this article is a comprehensive study of the environmental sustainability of
Ukraine’s economy in the context of global energy and resource instability. The paper identifies key
elements of sustainability–the degree of energy sovereignty, resource consumption intensity, institutional effectiveness, and the level of environmental awareness–along with an analysis of the main
obstacles in each area. The study analyzes geopolitical factors destabilizing supply chains and the
role of international climate mechanisms (carbon regulation, “green” bonds) in enhancing the
economy’s adaptability. Energy transition scenarios for solar, wind, hydro, and bioenergy are
examined, with a differentiation of potential benefits and limitations. Particular attention is paid
to the implementation of circular models in industry, construction, and the agricultural sector, the
adaptation of international environmental standards, and the development of environmental monitoring systems. Key actors in the environmental transition–from state regulators to local communities–are systematized. Strategic priorities include the modernization of energy infrastructure,
the development of distributed generation from renewable energy sources, tax incentives for
resource conservation, and the expansion of recycling capacities. Together, these measures will
increase Ukraine’s resilience to external shocks and strengthen its position in the clean technology
market.
Vitalii S. Nitsenko· Actual Problems of Economics· 0 citations
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