School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Center for Sustainable Development and Smart Decision, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing 100081, China.
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Center for Sustainable Development and Smart Decision, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Nov 15;743:140741. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140741. Epub 2020 Jul 10.
In recent years, the impacts of biomass energy consumption on the environment have attracted the attention of policymakers and scholars. Although empirical studies have been conducted on this topic, the relationship between biomass energy production and the ecological footprint has been overlooked in the literature. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the effects of biomass energy production on the ecological footprint of the G7 countries for the period 1980-2016. For this purpose, we use a set of methods, that help overcome the problem of cross-sectional dependence in panel data analysis. The findings from dynamic seemingly unrelated regression (DSUR) estimation show that biomass energy production increases the ecological footprint of the G7 countries. Meanwhile, a Dumitrescu-Hurlin causality test provides evidence that unidirectional causality runs from biomass energy production to the ecological footprint. Based on these empirical results, several policy recommendations are proposed for the G7 countries.
近年来，生物质能源消费对环境的影响引起了政策制定者和学者的关注。尽管已有针对这一主题的实证研究，但文献中忽略了生物质能源生产与生态足迹之间的关系。本研究旨在通过调查 1980-2016 年期间生物质能源生产对 G7 国家生态足迹的影响来填补这一空白。为此，我们使用了一组方法，这些方法有助于克服面板数据分析中横截面相关性的问题。动态似不相关回归（DSUR）估计的结果表明，生物质能源生产增加了 G7 国家的生态足迹。同时，杜米特雷斯库-赫林因果检验提供了证据，表明从生物质能源生产到生态足迹存在单向因果关系。基于这些实证结果，为 G7 国家提出了几项政策建议。
