Akdag Saffet, Yıldırım Hakan
Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Tarsus University, Turkey.
Department of International Logistics and Transportation Faculty of Economic, Administrative and Social Sciences, Istanbul Gelişim University, Turkey.
Heliyon. 2020 Mar 2;6(3):e03396. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03396. eCollection 2020 Mar.
The efficient use of energy contributes to less energy consumption and the reduction of greenhouse gases released to nature, thus improving environmental sustainability. For this reason, many countries pioneered by the developed nations are trying to develop policies for energy efficiency. In this context, the relationship between energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions was tested by panel co-integration, panel causality, and FMOLS and DOLS analysis. Given that the study used the datasets of 29 European countries over the period 1995-2016, there result suggests that there is a long-term relationship between energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions and that the quantity of greenhouse gas emission decreases as energy efficiency increases. Finally, the robustness and novelty by employing the Emirmahmutoglu & Kose (2011) approach, the findings illustrated that there is a causal relationship between energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions for many European countries. Overall, the current study presents a relevant policy direction for the European bloc countries.
能源的高效利用有助于降低能源消耗，并减少排放到自然环境中的温室气体，从而提高环境可持续性。因此，许多以发达国家为首的国家都在努力制定提高能源效率的政策。在此背景下，通过面板协整、面板因果关系以及完全修正最小二乘法（FMOLS）和动态最小二乘法（DOLS）分析，对能源效率与温室气体排放之间的关系进行了检验。鉴于该研究使用了1995年至2016年期间29个欧洲国家的数据集，结果表明能源效率与温室气体排放之间存在长期关系，并且温室气体排放量会随着能源效率的提高而减少。最后，通过采用埃米尔马哈穆托格鲁和科塞（2011）的方法，研究结果的稳健性和新颖性表明，许多欧洲国家的能源效率与温室气体排放之间存在因果关系。总体而言，本研究为欧盟国家提出了相关的政策方向。
