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dc.contributor.authorSarkodie, Samuel Asumadu
dc.contributor.authorOwusu, Phebe Asantewaa
dc.contributor.authorLeirvik, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-26T13:18:12Z
dc.date.available2020-03-26T13:18:12Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-05
dc.description.abstractSignificant progress has been made towards mitigating climate change and its impacts across countries. However, the transboundary effect of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions means that excluding the actions and inactions of certain countries and territories that escalate emissions is alarming. On this note, we examined the heterogeneous contribution of immediate and underlying drivers of emissions across 206 countries and territories for the period spanning 1960–2018. We deployed a dynamic panel estimation technique that accounts for cross-sectional dependence, heterogeneous parameters across countries, and dynamic correlated effects—a constraint for socio-economic, consumption- and pollution-based models. A global accounting of economic policy and debt, population structure, density and urbanization, and environmental-related aggregate indicators in a carbon emission function is presented. The empirical results demonstrate that the overarching effect of the instantaneous increase in economic development, population dynamics and energy utilization stimulate global emissions at national, urban and household levels across countries and territories. Industrialization and trade were found to escalate global pollution levels due to the impact of carbonized and energy-intensive economic structure in many developing and developed economies. Urbanization, urban income growth, and urban energy consumption are intertwined, hence, the institution of urban-related policy interventions is likely to negate the trio-impact on environmental sustainability. The triple effect (exploitation of natural resources, production and consumption) of economic development spurs environmental pollution, thus, calls for structural change from a carbonized to a decarbonized economy. The complex interaction highlights diversification of the energy mix by the inclusion of clean and renewable energy sources, fossil fuel-switching, and modern technologies like carbon capture and storage to improve energy efficiency and decline emission intensities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSarkodie S, Owusu PA, Leirvik T. Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 2020;15(3)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1799923
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7640
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17878
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen_US
dc.relation.journalEnvironmental Research Letters
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.titleGlobal effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissionsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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