Sarpong Kwabena Agyarko, Xu Wanzhen, Gyamfi Bright Akwasi, Ofori Elvis Kwame
School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301, Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212013, Jiangsu, China.
School of Management, Sir Padampat Singhania University, Bhatewar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
J Environ Manage. 2023 Jul 1;337:117556. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117556. Epub 2023 Mar 21.
To achieve sustainable production and consumption patterns in the modern world, emerging countries are concentrating more on how economic variables may employ carbon neutrality targets appropriately. Using renewable energy, structural changes initiative, and imposing environmental taxes are all part of the plan to achieve the carbon neutrality goal in terms of reduced carbon emissions (CO), haze pollutants, and greenhouse gases (GHG). Environmental taxation, renewable energy, structural changes, trade openness, and foreign direct investment (FDI) are aspects taken into account in this study, along with the long-term viability of the natural ecology in the E7 (China, Turkey, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico) economies. The Driscoll Kraay fixed effect OLS technique and the Method-of-Moment quantile (MMQ) regression technique were adopted for the baseline analysis for the data span of 2000 to 2020. From the empirical analysis, it was discovered that environmental Tax, structure change, and renewable energy have a negative connection with carbon emissions for the understudy countries. Moreover, the pollutant haven hypothesis (PHH) was confirmed since the findings discovered a positively significant relation involving FDI and carbon emission. Similarly, trade openness was seen to have a positive connection with carbon emissions. Thus, it is concluded that effective environmental taxation, renewable energy enhancement, and structure changes mitigate pollution while trade openness and FDI inflow enhance carbon emission for the E7 economies. According to the results, rigorous environmental tax rules will enable enterprises to transition manufacturing to green and sustainable alternatives. Finally, the report recommends that transferring tax money to research and development of sustainable technology programmes will enable governments to meet the SDG-7 and SDG-13 objectives of the United Nations.
为在现代世界实现可持续的生产和消费模式，新兴国家越来越关注经济变量如何恰当地采用碳中和目标。使用可再生能源、发起结构变革以及征收环境税，都是在减少碳排放（CO）、雾霾污染物和温室气体（GHG）方面实现碳中和目标计划的一部分。本研究考虑了环境税收、可再生能源、结构变革、贸易开放度和外国直接投资（FDI），以及E7（中国、土耳其、印度、俄罗斯、巴西、印度尼西亚和墨西哥）经济体中自然生态的长期可持续性。采用Driscoll Kraay固定效应OLS技术和矩量法分位数（MMQ）回归技术，对2000年至2020年的数据跨度进行基线分析。从实证分析中发现，对于所研究的国家，环境税、结构变革和可再生能源与碳排放呈负相关。此外，污染避难所假说（PHH）得到证实，因为研究结果发现FDI与碳排放之间存在正相关关系。同样，贸易开放度与碳排放呈正相关。因此得出结论，有效的环境税收、可再生能源的增强和结构变革可减轻污染，而贸易开放度和FDI流入则会增加E7经济体的碳排放。根据研究结果，严格的环境税收规则将使企业能够将生产转向绿色和可持续的替代方案。最后，报告建议将税收资金转移到可持续技术项目的研发上，这将使各国政府能够实现联合国的可持续发展目标7和可持续发展目标13。
