The impact of agriculture production and renewable energy consumption on CO emissions in developing countries: the role of governance.

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 CO emissions.

Environmental Regulation Effect on Green Total Factor Productivity: Mediating Role of Foreign Direct Investment Quantity and Quality.

Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an excellent index for green development. The objective of this study was to check whether environmental regulation (ER) can affect GTFP through the mediating role of foreign direct investment (FDI) quantity and quality. Using the super-efficiency Epsilon-based measure (EBM) model and a Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) index, China's GTFP growth was measured during 1998-2018.

Examining the determinants of water resources availability in sub-Sahara Africa: a panel-based econometrics analysis.

With the rapid development of economies, the problem of water resources availability particularly in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) has increased significantly. Specifically, in recent times, addressing the challenge of access to water resources has become a global issue of which countries in SSA are not exceptional since the adequate supply of potable water is as relevant as economic development. Consequently, this current paper seeks to estimate the determinants of water resources availability in sub-Sahara Africa.

The influence of technological innovation and human capital on environmental efficiency among different regions in Asia-Pacific.

This study employs super-efficiency DEA model with desirable inputs and an undesirable output in calculating environmental efficiency values in different regions in Asia-Pacific from 1990 to 2018. The study compares environmental efficiency index in South East Asia, South Asia and East Asia. The study also evaluates the determinants of environmental efficiency using truncated regression.

Environmental pollution of China to foreign investors: detrimental or beneficial?

This study investigates the dynamic linkage among foreign direct investment, energy consumption, and environmental pollution of China spanning from 1990 to 2014. Despite the extant literature on the FDI-energy-growth-environmental pollution nexus, most of the conclusion seems inconsistent. Hence, this study utilized recent econometric techniques such as the dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach, Gregory and Hansen structural cointegration, and the bootstrap Granger causality.

The influence of trade openness on environmental pollution in EU-18 countries.

Trade openness is one of the main channels of globalization and technological transfers. In environmental economic literature, the implications of trade openness remain controversial and still could be potential drivers of carbon dioxide emissions. This study therefore explores the effect of trade openness in developed countries using EU-18 economies.

Predicting the carbon dioxide emission of China using a novel augmented hypo-variance brain storm optimisation and the impulse response function.

For the past decade, the level of carbon dioxide emission in most cities in China is on the ascendancy. Yet, better prediction of environmental pollution is at the fringes of recent studies. Several erstwhile researchers have attempted predicting pollution whilst utilising approaches including the ordinary linear regressions, multivariate regressions, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), evolutionary and some conventional swarm intelligence.

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of environmental efficiency for China's hotel sector: new evidence through metafrontier global Malmquist-Luenberger.

With the adding of tourist volume in China, carbon emissions from hotel sector increased greatly. Environmental efficiency of hotel sector considering technology heterogeneity is mainly analyzed across different regions of China from 2000 to 2013. Metafrontier global Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) is implemented to evaluate environmental efficiency of hotel sector.

Different impacts of export and import on carbon emissions across 7 ASEAN countries: A panel quantile regression approach.

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has contributed numerous carbon emissions during the phase of industrialization. This study mainly compares the different effects of export and import on CO emissions across 7 ASEAN countries over 1990-2017. In addition, we investigate how technological innovation affects carbon emissions.

Innovation and CO emissions: the complimentary role of eco-patent and trademark in the OECD economies.

Increasing global emissions has led to research on the role of innovations play combating emissions. Mitigations from innovation perspective have mainly been focused on the role of patent, ignoring the role of trademarks. We therefore investigate the mitigating power of patent and trademarks in the OECD economies, benchmarking patent as the traditional mitigation strategy.

The effects of economic growth and innovation on CO emissions in different regions.

Economic growth and economic energy consumption have received greater attention due to its contribution to global CO emissions in recent decades. The literature on CO emissions and innovation for regional differences is very scanty as there is not enough study that considered different regions in a single analysis. We adopt a holistic approach by incorporating different regions so as to assess how innovation contributes to emission reduction.

The effect of innovation on CO emissions of OCED countries from 1990 to 2014.

Human activities are accelerating CO emissions all over the world most especially in high-income nations, spurring the rise in greenhouse gas emissions. For decades, technologies have been developed and patented in response to the environmental problems. There is an outcry for innovative ways to combat the environmental menace.