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- Title
The impact of agriculture production and renewable energy consumption on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in developing countries: the role of governance.
- Authors
Dauda, Lamini; Long, Xingle; Mensah, Claudia Nyarko; Ampon-Wireko, Sabina
- Abstract
Environmental pollution has aggravated the climate change issues posing unusual challenges to the survival and growth of humanity, including extreme weather, loss of species, and sustainability of the ecosystem in developing countries. Unlike previous studies, this paper adds new dimension to the literature by incorporating corruption into agriculture production-environment nexus. This study adds new dimension to the literature by examining corruption, agriculture, and renewable energy on CO2 emissions. The study therefore examines the effects of governance (corruption) and agriculture production on CO2 emissions in 20 countries in Africa from 1990 to 2019. The study employed recent panel econometric approach which accounts for cross-sectional dependence in the variables. The findings of the fixed effect model and panel dynamic ordinary least squares (PDOLS) show that forest and renewable energy consumption decrease CO2 emissions. However, corruption, agriculture production, export, and urbanization escalate CO2 emissions in African countries covered in the paper. Moreover, the Dumitrescu-Hurlin Granger causality indicates a bidirectional causality between agriculture production and CO2 emissions, renewable energy use, agricultural output, and forest. Also, unidirectional Granger causality runs from corruption to forest and agriculture production. On these premises, consented efforts by governments should be made to support good institutions in order to promote good governance to avert pervasive consequences of corruption on the environment.
- Subjects
AFRICA; RENEWABLE energy sources; ENERGY consumption; DEVELOPING countries; FIXED effects model; EXTREME weather; SUSTAINABILITY; FOREST biomass
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 53, p113804
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-023-30266-5