Transport infrastructure, economic growth, and transport CO2 emissions nexus: Does green energy consumption in the transport sector matter?

发布时间：2023年3月

作者：Dai, JP (Dai, Jiapeng)^a Alvarado, R (Alvarado, Rafael)^b; Ali, S (Ali, Sajid)^c; Ahmed, Z (Ahmed, Zahoor)^d,e; Meo, MS (Meo, Muhammad Saeed)^f

单位：a Nanjing Univ, Sch Govt, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

b Univ Espiritu Santo, Esai Business Sch, Samborondon 091650, Ecuador

c Bahria Univ, Bahria Business Sch, Dept Business Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan

d Cyprus Int Univ, Fac Econ & Adm Sci, Dept Accounting & Finance, Mersin 10, TR-99040 Haspolat, Turkiye

e ILMA Univ, Fac Management Sci, Dept Business Adm, Karachi, Pakistan

f Xiamen Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Sepang, Malaysia

期刊：Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volume 30, MAR 2023, 40094–40106

摘要：Attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is important to control the adverse impacts of climate change and achieve sustainable development. Among the 17 SDGs, target 13 emphasizes enhancing urgent actions to combat climate-related changes. This target is also dependent on target 7, which advocates enhancing access to cheap alternative sustainable energy. To accomplish these targets, it is vital to curb the transport CO2 emissions (TCO2) which increased by approximately 80% from 1990 to 2019. Thus, this study assesses the role of transport renewable energy consumption (TRN) in TCO2 by taking into consideration transport fossil fuel consumption (TTF) and road infrastructure (RF) from 1970 to 2019 for the United States (US) with the intention to suggest some suitable mitigation policies. Also, this study assessed the presence of transport environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) to assess the direction of transport-induced growth. The study used the Bayer-Hanck cointegration test which utilizes four different cointegration techniques to decide cointegration along with the Gradual Shift causality test which considers structural shift and fractional integration in time series data. The long-run findings of the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) test, which counters endogeneity and serial correlation, revealed that the transport renewable energy use mitigates as well as Granger causes TCO2. However, transport fossil fuel usage and road infrastructure enhance TCO2. Surprisingly, the transport EKC is invalid in the case of the US, and increased growth levels are harmful to the environment. The association between TCO2 and economic growth is similar to a U-shaped curve. The Spectral Causality test revealed the growth hypothesis regarding transport fossil fuel use and economic growth connection, which suggests that policymakers should be cautious while decreasing the usage of transport fossil fuels because it may hamper economic progress. These findings call for revisiting growth strategies and increasing green energy utilization in the transport sector to mitigate transport emissions.

关键词：Transport renewable energy；Transport CO2 emissions；Sustainable development goals；Environmental sustainability；Transport fossil fuel consumption

DOI：10.1007/s11356-022-25100-3

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