The impact of energy efficiency in reducing environmental degradation: does renewable energy and forest resources matter?
Energy efficiency
Environmental degradation
Renewable energy
Journal
Environmental science and pollution research international
ISSN: 1614-7499
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9441769
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
21
01
2023
accepted:
21
06
2023
medline:
9
8
2023
pubmed:
6
7
2023
entrez:
6
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The vast utilisation of energy sources in promoting economic growth has been identified as the major cause of environmental degradation (through carbon emission). Therefore, the efficient utilisation of energy ensuring the minimisation of any wastages is vital in reducing environmental degradation. The current research aims to investigate the importance of energy efficiency, forest resources, and renewable energy in reducing environmental degradation. The major novelty of the research is that it seeks to investigate the impact of forest resources and energy efficiency on carbon emissions. Literature shows that there is still a dearth on the association of forest resources and energy efficiency, with carbon emissions. We employ data of the European Union countries for the time frame ranging from 1990 to 2020. The CS-ARDL technique depicts that raising GDP by 1% raises carbon emissions by 5.62% in the short run and 2.93% in the long run, raising renewable energy by 1 unit reduces carbon emissions by 0.098 and 0.03 units in the short and long run, respectively, whilst raising energy efficiency by 1% reduces carbon emissions by 6.29% and 3.29% in the short and long run, respectively. The Fixed Effect and Random Effect tools support the outcomes of the CS-ARDL tool on the negative effect of renewable energy and energy efficiency, and the positive effect of GDP on carbon emissions, and also depict that raising non-renewable energy by a single unit raises carbon emissions by 0.07 and 0.08 units, respectively. Forest resources, in this present research, do not significantly impact the emissions of carbon amongst the European nations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37410331
doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-28434-8
pii: 10.1007/s11356-023-28434-8
doi:
Substances chimiques
Carbon Dioxide
142M471B3J
Carbon
7440-44-0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
86957-86972Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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