Renewable energy for achieving environmental sustainability: institutional quality and information and communication technologies as moderating factors.

The environmental challenges are currently placed at the forefront in order to achieve sustainable development. Although existing studies have largely examined the underlying factors of the environmental sustainability, the institutional quality and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) still insufficiently investigated. The aim of this paper is to clarify the role played by institutional quality and ICTs to mitigate environmental degradation at different scales of the ecological gap.

Nonlinear impact of biomass energy consumption on ecological footprint in a fossil fuel-dependent economy.

Facing the rise in threats that the environment confronts, several studies were conducted regarding the possible sources of renewable energy in general and biomass energy in particular. This study raises the question of the role that biomass energy can play to reduce ecological footprint in a country rich in fossil fuel energy and on which its economy is largely dependent. The results of the NARDL method applied to the case of Saudi Arabia during the period 1984-2017 showed that the positive change in biomass energy consumption reduces the ecological footprint both in the short and long term.

Foreign investment and air pollution: Do good governance and technological innovation matter?

This article examines how good governance and technological innovation complement foreign direct investment (FDI) to mitigate carbon emissions in twenty-three emerging economies for the period 1996-2014. Based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach, we established the following results: First, from the non-interactive regressions, FDI inflows have positive effects on the four indicators of carbon emissions while increasing governance quality and technological innovation have negative effects on these indicators. Second, from the interactive regressions, the interactions between FDI and both political and institutional governance decrease the level of CO emissions.