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dc.contributor.authorSarkodie, Samuel Asumadu
dc.contributor.authorAdams, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorOwusu, Phebe Asantewaa
dc.contributor.authorLeirvik, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorOzturk, Ilhan
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-04T09:30:49Z
dc.date.available2020-03-04T09:30:49Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-24
dc.description.abstractChina's carbon-embedded growth trajectory is gradually becoming a burden to environmental sustainability, hence, requires much attention. The complexity of human capital attributed emissions coupled with fossil fuel inclined energy utilization for industrialization underscores the failure of China to meet its mitigation target. We developed a policy-driven conceptual tool based on disaggregate energy utilization, human capital, trade, income level and natural resource exploitation in a carbon and environmental degradation function. Using a battery of statistics and econometric techniques such as neural network, SIMPLS, <i>U</i> test, dynamic ARDL Simulations, and Prais-Winsten first-order autoregressive [AR(1)] regression with robust standard errors, we examined the theme based on a data spanning 1961–2016. The study demonstrates that fossil fuel energy consumption and human capital are conducive catalysts for climate change. The instantaneous increase in renewable energy, environmental sustainability and income level has a diminishing effect on emissions and environmental degradation. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is validated in both emissions and degradation function — at a turning point of US$ 5469.79 and US$ 5863.70, respectively. The study highlights that the over-dependence on fossil fuel energy and natural resources for economic development, carbon-intensive trade and carbon-embedded human capital, thwart efforts to mitigating climate change and its impacts. Thus, the onus of responsibility for achieving a cleaner environment in China depends majorly on governmental policies that favour or dampens environmental sustainability.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSarkodie, Adams, Owusu, Leirvik, Ozturk. Mitigating degradation and emissions in China: The role of environmental sustainability, human capital and renewable energy. Science of the Total Environment. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1799464
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137530
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.issn1879-1026
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17597
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalScience of the Total Environment
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400en_US
dc.titleMitigating degradation and emissions in China: The role of environmental sustainability, human capital and renewable energyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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