Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14137639
Keywords
environmental sustainability; renewable energy consumption; technological innovation; urbanization; NARDL
Funding
- Institute for Advanced Research Publication Grant, United International University (UIU) [IAR/2022/Pub/023]
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This study investigates the relationship between urbanization, technological innovation, renewable energy consumption, and environmental quality in Egypt and Ethiopia. The findings suggest that clean energy integration and technological innovations can reduce carbon emissions and ecological blames, thus decreasing environmental adversity. Additionally, urbanization has a positive impact on environmental sustainability. The study also reveals relationships between technological innovation and environmental sustainability, as well as ecological footprint and urbanization in these countries. There is a unidirectional causality from ecological footprint to renewable energy consumption.
The present study investigates the nexus between urbanization, technological innovation, renewable energy consumption, and environmental quality in Egypt and Ethiopia from 1980 to 2020 by employing symmetric and asymmetric frameworks. Referring to symmetric assessment, the coefficient of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation revealed a negative and statistically significant tie with environmental sustainability, valid for both proxies. Study findings suggest that clean energy integration and technological innovations in the economy decrease environmental adversity by reducing carbon emissions and ecological blames. Although the elasticity of urbanization has documented a positive and statistically significant connection with environmental sustainability, the conclusion is valid for both models. Second, in the long run, the asymmetric shocks of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation have exposed a negative and statistically significant tie to environmental sustainability, whereas in the case of urbanization, the asymmetric shocks unveiled a positive and statistically significant association to environmental sustainability. Third, the study revealed that the feedback hypothesis explains the relationship between technological innovation and environmental sustainability [TI <--> EF] in Egypt and ecological footprint and urbanization in Egypt and Ethiopia. Moreover, unidirectional causality runs from ecological footprint to renewable energy consumption in Egypt and Ethiopia.
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