Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Gayashika L. Fernando, Migara H. Liyanage, Gabrial Anandarajah, Rahula A. Attalage, Shiromi Karunaratne
Summary: Signatories to the Paris Agreement aim to achieve net zero GHG emissions and limit global temperature increase by 2 degrees Celsius. This study for Sri Lanka explores ambitious scenarios for transitioning to a net-zero energy system by 2050, considering various technology options and policy measures. The results suggest that aggressive policies in both energy supply and demand sectors, including nuclear and renewable energy, efficient end-use devices, and fuel switching, can achieve near carbon-neutral status at specific carbon tax rates.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2023)
Article
Economics
Mikkel Bennedsen, Eric Hillebrand, Sebastian Jensen
Summary: This study examines the relationship between per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions using national-level panel data from 1960 to 2018. The findings suggest the presence of an inverse U-shaped relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), in production-based emissions globally and for the OECD and Asia regions. However, the EKC shape disappears for the OECD when consumption-based emissions data is used, indicating that the observed EKC shape for the OECD is driven by emissions exports. For Asia, the EKC shape becomes even more pronounced when consumption-based emissions data is considered, with an earlier turning point.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hemali Rathnayake, Takeshi Mizunoya
Summary: Agricultural activities contribute 7% to Sri Lanka's economy and account for 20% of the national greenhouse gas emissions. This study assessed the agricultural emissions in the Mahaweli H region in 2018 and identified the need for extensive carbon sequestration strategies and increased nitrogen use efficiency to achieve GHG mitigation targets.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Economics
Maneka Jayasinghe, E. A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
Summary: The study explores energy poverty in Sri Lanka using the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI), finding that households in Sri Lanka are experiencing a moderate level of energy poverty on average, with the lack of access to modern cooking fuel being the largest contributor. Significant differences in energy poverty were observed by gender, age, ethnicity, income group, and sub-national location of the household.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ploy Achakulwisut, Peter Erickson, Celine Guivarch, Roberto Schaeffer, Elina Brutschin, Steve Pye
Summary: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's mitigation scenarios database is a valuable resource for policymakers, but there are variations in models and scenario designs. This analysis focuses on scenarios with warming limited to 2 degrees C or below, examining the feasibility and trajectory of different fossil fuel reduction pathways. The findings emphasize the importance of clear reduction benchmarks in coal, oil, and gas production and use, along with other climate mitigation targets.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nilanka Perera, Saman B. Gunatilake
Summary: Sri Lanka is currently experiencing an economic crisis, which is significantly hindering medical research and presenting numerous challenges for researchers. Urgent actions are needed to address this situation and ensure the continuity of medical research in Sri Lanka.
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Ji Min, Gongxing Yan, Azher M. Abed, Samia Elattar, Mohamed Amine Khadimallah, Amin Jan, H. Elhosiny Ali
Summary: During the anthropocentric period, sustainable energy supply and climate change pose significant problems for humans. The building sector is a major contributor to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and reducing a building's energy consumption and environmental impact is crucial. This can be achieved through the use of zero-energy buildings and sustainable clean energy, resulting in savings in energy, CO2, and improved building performance.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Inayet Ozge Aksu, Tugce Demirdelen
Summary: A new hybrid method was developed in this study, using the Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) algorithm and the Firefly Algorithm (FA) hybrid structure. A CO2 emission estimation method based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was proposed and successfully applied in areas requiring future estimation, such as Turkey.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Amalka Nawarathna, Zaid Alwan, Barry Gledson, Nirodha Fernando
Summary: Research in Sri Lanka on the embodied carbon of buildings revealed that critical carbon elements such as substructure, frame, upper floors, and external walls account for the majority of the overall embodied carbon. This study provided quantitative information for decision-makers to implement strategies to reduce embodied carbon in buildings in Sri Lanka.
JOURNAL OF BUILDING ENGINEERING
(2021)
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Elena Shevchenko, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, Shouheng Sun, Tierui Zhang
Summary: This introduction introduces the Nanoscale themed collection on CO2 capture and conversion, highlighting research on advanced nanoscale materials and reactions.
Article
Thermodynamics
Branka D. Gvozdenac Urosevic, Damir J. Dozic
Summary: This paper uses artificial neural networks to predict the behavior of the energy system, showing that possible changes in relevant parameters can be reliably determined for the prediction.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matheus Koengkan, Jose Alberto Fuinhas, Nuno Silva
Summary: The research found that renewable energy consumption in nineteen Latin America & the Caribbean countries is negatively related to outdoor air pollution death rates, assisting in reducing mortality. Additionally, fossil fuel consumption has a positive impact on mortality rates, while economic growth has a negative impact. Therefore, public policy should focus on increasing renewable energy consumption and improving the quality of cities.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Andrew L. Fanning, Jason Hickel
Summary: Research shows that some countries are exceeding their fair share of the carbon budget and should compensate undershooting countries for their responsibility in climate breakdown. A study develops a procedure to quantify the compensation owed in a 'net zero' scenario where all countries decarbonize by 2050. The global North would overshoot its share of the 1.5 degrees C carbon budget by three times, appropriating half of the global South's share.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Qiang Wang, Jiale Guo, Rongrong Li, Xue-ting Jiang
Summary: This study examines the effects of different energy sources on economic growth and carbon emissions in 34 OECD countries from 1995 to 2019. The findings show that renewable energy has a positive impact on economic growth and a negative correlation with carbon emissions, while oil and natural gas have lesser effects. The study suggests that increasing investment in renewable energy, with natural gas as a transitional replacement for oil, will contribute to the carbon neutrality process.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Benjamin Ampomah Asiedu, Abisola Amudat Hassan, Murad A. Bein
Summary: The research found a long-term nexus among renewable energy, non-renewable energy, CO2 emissions, and economic growth, with unidirectional causality between renewable energy and non-renewable energy consumption, as well as renewable energy and CO2 emissions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mohammad Amin Amani, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: Industry 4.0 recommends transitioning from traditional manufacturing to automated industrial practices in supply chain management, along with the use of new technologies to ensure sustainable supply chains and reduce food loss. Artificial intelligence techniques, such as deep learning, can increase productivity in perishable product supply chains by reducing costs, improving accuracy, accelerating processes, and reducing the carbon footprint of food. In meat supply chain management, a classification model trained by DCNN and PSO algorithms achieves 100% accuracy in distinguishing wholesome meat from spoiled ones.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Zouheir Mighri, Suleman Sarwar, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: Forests are crucial for controlling climate change, but China's economic development has negatively affected forest habitats. The study shows that forest investment and proper management can reduce carbon emissions and lower carbon levels in neighboring provinces.
WEATHER CLIMATE AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Phebe Asantewaa Owusu
Summary: Due to data limitations, assessing the environmental impacts of bitcoin is challenging. However, this article presents a constructed dataset that measures bitcoin's annual carbon footprint, providing valuable data for multidisciplinary research in the fields of environment, energy, and economics.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive assessment of energy sustainability across 217 countries and territories, highlighting the challenges faced by low-income countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research reveals that sustained economic growth and reduced income inequality can improve energy sustainability in developing economies. Additionally, climate-prone regions that heavily rely on water resources for power generation should prioritize sustainable climate policies to minimize trade-offs between energy resources and environmental threats.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Phebe Asantewaa Owusu
Summary: The intensification of land use poses a threat to environmental sustainability. Long-term income growth helps mitigate emissions, but emissions drive global expansion of land use for agriculture and forestry activities. Urban expansion has diminishing effects on agricultural lands in developed countries.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Muhammad Tariq Iqbal Khan, Sofia Anwar, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Muhammad Rizwan Yaseen, Abdul Majeed Nadeem
Summary: Natural disasters are a global problem, and developing countries are most affected due to a poor environment, feeble adaptation, impoverished socioeconomic conditions, poor infrastructure, limited resources, and unstable institutions. Achieving sustainable cities and human settlements by mitigating the loss caused by natural disasters is crucial, but there is limited literature in this area. This research examines the impact of natural disasters on income reduction and explores the role of infrastructure, foreign direct investment (FDI), human capital, globalization, and capital formation in economic growth across income groups.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Muhammad Tariq Iqbal Khan, Sofia Anwar, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Muhammad Rizwan Yaseen, Abdul Majeed Nadeem, Qamar Ali
Summary: Reducing natural disasters and their economic losses is critical for sustainable development. However, there is a lack of comprehensive studies on sustainable cities and human settlements. This research examines the impact of disaster risk and resilience on human loss due to natural disasters in 90 countries from 1995 to 2019. The results show that disaster risk increases human losses, while resilience has a positive impact in developed countries.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Phebe Asantewaa Owusu, John Taden
Summary: A sustainable transition to green growth is crucial for addressing climate change. However, the lack of clear definitions and common measures makes it difficult to provide guidance to policymakers. In this study, we construct green growth measures for 203 countries from 1990 to 2021, considering dimensions such as natural resources, socio-economic outcomes, environmental productivity, policy responses, and quality of life. Our novel summary index technique controls for correlated variables and missing values, providing valuable indicators for country-specific and global modeling on green economic development.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maruf Yakubu Ahmed, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Thomas Leirvik
Summary: This study examines the relationship between the top five cryptocurrencies and the U.S. S&P500 index from January 2018 to December 2021 using the GETS VAR and VAR models. The findings indicate positive short- and long-run effects of historical S&P500 returns on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Tether returns, while negative effects of historical returns of these cryptocurrencies on S&P500 returns. The impulse-response analysis suggests that shocks in S&P500 returns stimulate positive responses from cryptocurrency returns, while shocks in cryptocurrency returns trigger negative responses from S&P500 returns. The bi-directional causality between S&P500 returns and crypto returns highlights the need for appropriate regulatory policies to mitigate potential risks of financial contagion in the crypto market.
Article
Development Studies
Fengqin Liu, Jae-Yeon Sim, Bless Kofi Edziah, Huaping Sun, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Philip Kofi Adom
Summary: The gap in energy demand and supply in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to energy insecurity, causing power outages and economic decline. Technological spillover, specifically from OECD countries, has a significant impact on improving energy efficiency. Importing machinery from OECD countries improves energy efficiency, while non-OECD imports do not have a significant effect.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Md Aminul Islam, Sarawut Sangkham, Adhena Ayaliew Werkneh, Foysal Hossen, Md Atiqul Haque, Mohammad Morshad Alam, Md Arifur Rahman, Sanjoy Kumar Mukharjee, Tahmid Anam Chowdhury, Juan Eduardo Sosa-Hernandez, Md Jakariya, Firoz Ahmed, Prosun Bhattacharya, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: This study examines the changes in COVID-19 cases and deaths over time in Bangladesh and the impact of meteorological factors and vaccination on these disparities. The results show a correlation between meteorological conditions, vaccination, and COVID-19 incidences. Vaccination effectively reduces the number of new cases and fatalities.
GROUNDWATER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Ugur Korkut Pata, Mustafa Tevfik Kartal, Sinan Erdogan, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: This study analyzes the effects of renewable energy research & development (RRD) and nuclear energy research & development (NRD) expenditures on environmental quality in Germany's pursuit of carbon neutrality by 2045. Using various environmental indicators, the study examines the relationship between RRD/NRD and environmental quality, considering factors such as GDP, and tests the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and load capacity curve (LCC) hypotheses. The empirical results reveal that RRD expenditures are effective in reducing CO2 emissions, while both RRD and NRD expenditures have no significant effect on ecological footprint (EF). Thus, German policymakers could make more effective use of RRD to achieve their carbon neutrality goal.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Phebe Asantewaa Owusu
Summary: Globalization faces a tradeoff between meeting fish consumption demand for healthy living and reducing the ecological footprint for sustainable development. The decline in fish production in developed countries is compensated by overexploited stocks imported from developing economies. Global fish price volatility affects fish production, consumption, import, and export in developing nations, but not in high-income nations. The increase in fish footprint is influenced by affluence, urbanization, human development, and other factors.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sudeshna Ghosh, Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Shujaat Abbas, Buhari Dogan, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: This study examines the impact of economic complexity, high-tech industries, renewables, natural resource abundance, and financial globalization on CO2 emissions and ecological footprint in 10 newly industrializing countries. The results show that the development of high-tech industries has a positive impact on the environment, while renewables and natural resource exploitation can mitigate environmental challenges. However, economic complexity and financial globalization increase emissions and ecological footprint.
NATURAL RESOURCES FORUM
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Maruf Yakubu Ahmed, Phebe Asantewaa Owusu
Summary: Climate change adaptation and mitigation are crucial for sustainable development and reducing climate vulnerability. This study examines the impact of energy diversification, socio-economic drivers, and governance readiness on climate change vulnerability. The results show that high social and governance readiness promote climate resilience and that energy innovations can lessen climate change vulnerability.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
