School of Business and Economics, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh.
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Mar;29(12):16939-16958. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-16867-y. Epub 2021 Oct 16.
The energy sector of Argentina is predominantly reliant on fossil fuels. Consequently, such fossil fuel dependency within the nation's power sector, in particular, has aggravated the environmental quality in Argentina by amplifying the nation's energy production-based carbon emission levels. However, keeping into consideration the international commitments pledged by Argentina under the Paris Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, it is pertinent for this South American country to curb its energy production-based emission of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. Against this milieu, this study examines the impacts of renewable electricity generation, economic globalization, economic growth, and urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions generated from the production of electricity and heat in the context of Argentina. Using annual frequency data from 1971 to 2016, recent econometric methods are applied to control for multiple structural breaks in the data. The major findings from the ecnometric analyses affirmed long-run associations between renewable electricity generation, economic globalization, economic growth, urbanization, and energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina. Besides, enhancing renewable electricity output shares is found to curb these emissions while economic globalization and urbanization are witnessed to boost them. Moreover, renewable electricity generation and economic globalization are found to jointly reduce the energy production-related carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina. The results also validate the authenticity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Finally, the causality analysis reveals evidence of unidirectional causalities running from renewable electricity generation, economic globalization, economic growth, and urbanization to energy production-related carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina. In line with these findings, this study recommends several viable policies which can be implemented to help Argentina control the growth of its energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions.
阿根廷的能源部门主要依赖化石燃料。因此，该国电力部门对化石燃料的依赖，特别是加剧了阿根廷的环境质量，因为这增加了该国能源生产的碳排放水平。然而，考虑到阿根廷根据《巴黎协定》和可持续发展目标议程所做出的国际承诺，这个南美国家有必要控制其能源生产产生的温室气体排放，特别是二氧化碳。在这种情况下，本研究考察了可再生电力发电、经济全球化、经济增长和城市化对阿根廷电力和热力生产产生的二氧化碳排放的影响。本研究使用 1971 年至 2016 年的年度频率数据，应用最新的计量经济学方法来控制数据中的多个结构性断裂。计量经济学分析的主要结果证实了阿根廷可再生电力发电、经济全球化、经济增长、城市化与能源生产相关的二氧化碳排放之间存在长期关联。此外，增加可再生电力输出份额被发现可以抑制这些排放，而经济全球化和城市化则被发现会促进这些排放。此外，可再生电力发电和经济全球化被发现可以共同减少阿根廷能源生产相关的二氧化碳排放。结果还验证了环境库兹涅茨曲线（EKC）假说的真实性。最后，因果关系分析表明，阿根廷可再生电力发电、经济全球化、经济增长和城市化与能源生产相关的二氧化碳排放之间存在从前者到后者的单向因果关系。根据这些发现，本研究建议实施几项可行的政策，以帮助阿根廷控制其能源生产产生的二氧化碳排放的增长。
