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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 29, Pages 39668-39679Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-13505-5
Keywords
Geopolitical risk; Energy consumption; CO2 emissions; BRICS
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The study reveals the asymmetric impact of geopolitical risk on energy consumption and CO2 emissions in BRICS economies, with variations in magnitude rather than direction. The findings suggest the need for significant changes in energy and environmental policies to address geopolitical risks.
Environmental pollution is a geopolitical problem, and researchers have not considered it seriously yet. This study examines the asymmetric influence of geopolitical risk on energy consumption and CO2 emissions in BRICS economies using the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL) testing method over the period of 1985-2019. Therefore, we observed that in the long run, a positive and negative change in geopolitical risk has negative effect on energy consumption in India, Brazil, and China. The outcomes confirmed that an increase in geopolitical risk has negative effect on CO2 emissions in Russia and South Africa. Although a decrease in geopolitical risk has negative effects on CO2 emissions in India, China, South Africa, it has positive coefficient in Russia in the long run. Based on empirical findings, we also revealed that asymmetries mostly exist in terms of magnitude rather than direction. Our empirical results are country and group specific. The findings call for important changes in energy and environment policies to accommodate geopolitical risks.
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