School of Banking, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
School of Banking, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
J Environ Manage. 2020 May 1;261:110162. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110162. Epub 2020 Mar 2.
This paper contributes to the growing literature regarding the role of Information and Communication Technologies as well as Innovation on driving the level of carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth in context of the 21st conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21). Drawing the data from 13 selected G-20 countries (including Argentina, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States) during the period of 15 years, our study achieves significant results. First, only five factors impede the carbon emissions namely energy price, foreign direct investment, technology, spending on innovation and trade openness while the remainder of determinants contribute to contamination of environment, including financial development. Second, when it comes to economic growth, information and communication technological and financial development are positive driving factors. Our results do reject the absence of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) from our sample. Finally, our study empirically suggests that the work of controlling consumption of oil and environmentally friendly process including manufacture-trading in these economies will limit the amount of pollution.
本文为信息通信技术以及创新在推动 21 世纪气候变化大会（COP21）背景下二氧化碳排放水平和经济增长方面的作用的相关研究做出了贡献。本研究选取了 13 个 G20 国家（包括阿根廷、加拿大、中国、法国、德国、意大利、日本、墨西哥、韩国、俄罗斯联邦、土耳其、英国和美国）在 15 年期间的数据，得出了重要的研究结果。首先，只有五个因素会阻碍碳排放，分别是能源价格、外国直接投资、技术、创新支出和贸易开放度，而其余的决定因素则会导致环境污染，包括金融发展。其次，就经济增长而言，信息通信技术和金融发展是积极的推动因素。我们的研究结果也否定了我们的样本中不存在环境库兹涅茨曲线（EKC）的说法。最后，本研究从实证上表明，控制这些经济体的石油消费和环保过程（包括制造-贸易）的工作将限制污染的数量。
