Sepehrdoust Hamid, Tartar Mohsen, Zamani Shabkhaneh Saber, Heydari Parvin Shaghayegh
Faculty of Economics & Social Science, Department of Economics, Bu-Ali-Sina University, Hamedan, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Environ Health Insights. 2023 Aug 10;17:11786302231188244. doi: 10.1177/11786302231188244. eCollection 2023.
Considering the undeniable role and importance of the environment in people's lives, the present study is designed to investigate the combined effect of information and communication technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI) on achieving environmental sustainability. Since the increasing emission of carbon in society and its destructive environmental effects on social economic aspects and even political tensions have become a challenge, the main question of the research is what strategies have governments, especially oil exporting countries, used in the past to reduce the level they have discovered pollution and what policies do they want to follow in the future? Among the policies undertaken by the OPEC oil exporting countries, has the action for foreign direct investment (FDI) and the development of information and communication technology (ICT) been effective in preventing harmful environmental effects? For this purpose, data on renewable energy consumption, the intensity of use of information and communication technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), and urbanization have been used as explanatory variables, and carbon dioxide (CO) emission as a dependent variable. The target countries selected are oil exporting countries (OPEC) for the period 2000 to 2020, and the analysis method used is panel VAR. The results showed that creating a shock in FDI, labor force, urban population, and renewable energy consumption decreases CO while creating a shock in Gross capital formation increases CO. The impact of shock of ICT on CO is also insignificant and can be ignored. The results of variance analysis also showed that urban population, labor force, and FDI variables have the largest contribution in explaining the behavior of CO; therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to FDI and try to increase the attraction of foreign direct investment to reduce CO in OPEC countries. C23, F43, F64.
鉴于环境在人们生活中不可否认的作用和重要性，本研究旨在调查信息通信技术（ICT）和外国直接投资（FDI）对实现环境可持续性的综合影响。由于社会中碳排放量的增加及其对社会经济方面甚至政治紧张局势的破坏性环境影响已成为一项挑战，该研究的主要问题是各国政府，特别是石油出口国，过去采用了哪些策略来降低其发现的污染水平，以及它们未来想遵循哪些政策？在石油输出国组织（OPEC）石油出口国采取的政策中，外国直接投资（FDI）行动和信息通信技术（ICT）的发展在防止有害环境影响方面是否有效？为此，将可再生能源消费、信息通信技术使用强度、外国直接投资（FDI）和城市化数据用作解释变量，将二氧化碳（CO）排放用作因变量。选定的目标国家是2000年至2020年期间的石油出口国（OPEC），使用的分析方法是面板向量自回归（panel VAR）。结果表明，对外国直接投资、劳动力、城市人口和可再生能源消费产生冲击会减少二氧化碳排放，而对总资本形成产生冲击会增加二氧化碳排放。信息通信技术冲击对二氧化碳排放的影响也不显著，可以忽略不计。方差分析结果还表明，城市人口、劳动力和外国直接投资变量在解释二氧化碳排放行为方面的贡献最大；因此，有必要关注外国直接投资，并努力增加外国直接投资的吸引力，以减少石油输出国组织国家的二氧化碳排放。C23、F43、F64。
