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Dynamic impact of urbanization, economic growth, energy consumption, and trade openness on CO2 emissions in Nigeria


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Ali, Hamisu Sadi and Siong, Hook Law and Zannah, Talha Ibrahim (2016) Dynamic impact of urbanization, economic growth, energy consumption, and trade openness on CO2 emissions in Nigeria. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23 (12). pp. 12435-12443. ISSN 0944-1344; ESSN: 1614-7499

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to examine the dynamic impact of urbanization, economic growth, energy consumption, and trade openness on CO2 emissions in Nigeria based on autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL) approach for the period of 1971–2011. The result shows that variables were cointegrated as null hypothesis was rejected at 1 % level of significance. The coefficients of long-run result reveal that urbanization does not have any significant impact on CO2 emissions in Nigeria, economic growth, and energy consumption has a positive and significant impact on CO2 emissions. However, trade openness has negative and significant impact on CO2 emissions. Consumption of energy is among the main determinant of CO2 emissions which is directly linked to the level of income. Despite the high level of urbanization in the country, consumption of energy still remains low due to lower income of the majority populace and this might be among the reasons why urbanization does not influence emissions of CO2 in the country. Initiating more open economy policies will be welcoming in the Nigerian economy as the openness leads to the reduction of pollutants from the environment particularly CO2 emissions which is the major gases that deteriorate physical environment.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Economics and Management
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-6437-3
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Keywords: Autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL); CO 2 emissions; Economic growth; Energy consumption; Nigeria; Urbanization
Depositing User: Mohd Hafiz Che Mahasan
Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2017 10:04
Last Modified: 14 Aug 2017 10:04
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55572
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