School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus, PO Box 524, Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 May;31(24):35083-35114. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33479-4. Epub 2024 May 8.
The BRICS countries-Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-are committed to achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, which focuses on mitigating climate change. To attain this goal, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of ICT, renewable energy sources, industrialization, and institutional quality. This study contributes to the literature by examining the potential role of these factors in environmental sustainability in the BRICS economies from 2000 to 2021, utilizing cross-sectional augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) estimation and other novel econometric techniques. Accordingly, the study suggests that BRICS governments and policymakers prioritize the use of ICT in the industrial and institutional sectors to achieve faster environmental sustainability in the short-run, as per the CS-ARDL results. However, the study advises caution in the long-term as the interaction between ICT and renewable energy sources, industrialization, and institutional quality may not favour environmental quality. Although the renewable energy sources interaction with ICT may not yield immediate progress, strong measures need to be taken to ensure that short-term gains are not nullified. In conclusion, the study highlights the potential of ICT, renewable energy sources, industrialization, and institutional quality in achieving environmental sustainability in the BRICS countries, while recommending cautious measures in the long run to safeguard the progress made.
金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）致力于实现联合国可持续发展目标 13，该目标侧重于缓解气候变化。为了实现这一目标，必须强调信息通信技术、可再生能源、工业化和制度质量的重要性。本研究通过检验这些因素在 2000 年至 2021 年期间对金砖国家经济环境可持续性的潜在作用，为文献做出了贡献，使用了横截面扩充自回归分布滞后（CS-ARDL）估计和其他新的计量经济学技术。因此，根据 CS-ARDL 结果，本研究表明，金砖国家政府和政策制定者应优先在工业和制度部门使用信息通信技术，以在短期内实现更快的环境可持续性。然而，本研究建议在长期内保持谨慎，因为信息通信技术与可再生能源、工业化和制度质量之间的相互作用可能不利于环境质量。虽然信息通信技术与可再生能源之间的相互作用可能不会立即取得进展，但需要采取强有力的措施来确保短期收益不会化为乌有。总之，本研究强调了信息通信技术、可再生能源、工业化和制度质量在实现金砖国家环境可持续性方面的潜力，同时建议在长期内采取谨慎措施，以保护已经取得的进展。
