Charles Shaaba Saba , Andrew Adewale Alola , Nicholas Ngepah
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Abstract
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) essentially includes climate action that targets the protection and conservation of the natural environment and human lives. After establishing the existence and addressing the associated endogeneity problem, a two-step system-GMM was deployed to examine the influence of potential macroeconomic and socioeconomic factors alongside six categories of governance indicators and institutional quality on carbon dioxide (CO2) emission across selected 183 countries, first in a single panel and then in sub-divided panels of five regions: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Europe & Central Asia (ECA); East & South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP); and the America. Importantly, the investigation reveals that the governance indicators (i.e control of corruption, government effectiveness, political stability/terrorism, regulatory quality, rule of law, and voice and accountability) and institutional quality aggravate carbon emission in the overall panel while these influences vary across the region. Moreover, financial development and total natural resource are found to abate emission from CO2 emission in the overall panel while value added from agricultural and industrial activities alongside trade openness, land area, information and communication technology (ICT), population, and income per capita are detrimental to environmental quality. On policy relevance, the results overwhelmingly point policymakers to the criticality of the aspects of governance, institution quality, and socioeconomic factors in driving environmental sustainability goals across respective regions and particularly in the comprising countries.
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Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action.
Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers.
All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.
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