Sampene AK, Li C, Oteng-Agyeman F, Brenya R. Dissipating environmental pollution in the BRICS economies: do urbanization, globalization, energy innovation, and financial development matter?
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022;
29:82917-82937. [PMID:
35759100 DOI:
10.1007/s11356-022-21508-z]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
The question of how Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) can substantially dissipate environmental pollution (EVP) remains unsolved. In this regard, this research explores the dynamic association between energy consumption (EGC), economic expansion (EXP), globalization (GLO), energy innovation (ENI), urbanization (URB), financial development (FID), and environmental pollution (EVP) using panel data from 1990 to 2020. This study integrated the augmented mean group (AMG), common correlated effect means group estimator (CC-MG), and fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) model approach to estimate the long-run interaction among the series. The findings of this study reveal a positive and significant association between economic expansion, energy consumption, urbanization, financial development, and environmental pollution. In contrast, globalization and energy innovation extensively abate EVP in the BRICS economies. Moreover, the outcome of the Granger causality test indicates that energy consumption and energy innovation have a bidirectional association with EVP. The Granger causality test further revealed a unidirectional causality between globalization, urbanization, financial development, and environmental pollution. Finally, this research has implications for policymakers in the BRICS countries.
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