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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 16372-16385Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-23345-6
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Energy transition; Technological innovation; Higher education; Renewable energy; Sustainable environment
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This study examines the role of technological innovation in reducing ecological footprint and finds that technological innovation can minimize ecological footprint. Additionally, increased usage of human capital and renewable energy is associated with lower ecological footprint.
For the purpose of this study, the role of technological innovation is examined. Few studies have examined empirically and theoretically the relationship between technological innovation and ecological footprint in conjunction with other factors, such as the human capital index and renewable energy sources, such as biofuels and nuclear power. This study examines the impact of technological innovation on G-7 countries' ecological footprints from 1990 to 2020. A cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) model is used in the study. The results of the study show that technological innovation minimizes the ecological footprint. A lower ecological footprint is also associated with increased usage of human capital and renewable energy. Depletion of the natural environment is a short-term and long-term consequence of increased GDP growth. Our results confirm that ecologically sustainable technology enhances the quality of the environment. Consistent panel causality results were achieved. In the context of the G-7 countries, our study's results could support the idea that there are new policy ideas that could help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 13).
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