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- The study examines the links between emissions efficiency, technology gaps, and potential emissions intensity improvements, creating target-consideration environmental Kuznets curves (TC-EKC) specific to EU countries.
- The findings reveal that countries in the Baltic Sea region show an inverted-U-shaped TC-EKC, indicating progress in emissions reduction, while those in the non-Baltic Sea region do not reach emissions targets.
- The Baltic Sea region's low emissions efficiency and small technology gaps signify that it is still in the early stages of emissions technology development.
Article Abstract
This study investigates the relationships among emissions efficiency (Em), the emissions technology gap ratio (TGm), and room for improvement in emissions intensity (RIm), and creates target-consideration environmental Kuznets curves (TC-EKC) which are then examined and compared for countries in the European Union (EU) that are divided into those countries in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) and those in the non-Baltic Sea region (NBSR). The research results indicate that the BSR countries exhibit an inverted-U-shaped TC-EKC, but the NBSR countries do not, implying that CO emissions in the latter region do not achieve the target. The small TGm and the large RIm for the BSR countries indicate that this region has a low Em and is at the preliminary stage of emissions technology development.
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