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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 326, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116598
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Energy transition; COP26; Technology; Endogeneity
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This study examines the relationship between energy transition, economic growth, CO2 emissions, and information and communications technology (ICT) in BRICS countries. The findings show that carbon emissions have a positive impact on energy transition, economic growth contributes to increased consumption of energy transition, and ICT plays a significant role in the development of energy transition and addressing environmental challenges. The study calls for government support for the development of ICT in the BRICS countries.
In line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the recent COP26 summit, energy transition, low carbon emissions and technology have become extremely important subjects in the agenda of governments and poli-cymakers. The present study thus discusses the nexus between energy transition, economic growth, CO2 emis-sions and information and communications technology (ICT) in BRICS countries applying the novel GMM-PVAR method proposed on the annual data for the period 2000-2017. This method is strong to the issue of endogeneity which is commonly faced in the context of panel data analysis but mostly ignored in the literature. The findings of this research demonstrate that carbon emissions have a positive and significant effect on energy transition; similarly, raising economic growth augments the consumption of energy transition. Furthermore, ICT is found to be a significant choice in the development of energy transition and the solution of environmental challenges. Overall, technological factors in addition to economic and environmental factors also have great roles in the development of renewable energy and energy transition. Thus, results from this study call for government supports to develop ICT across the BRICS countries.
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