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Environmental Studies
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Hafiz Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq, Pablo Ponce, Laeeq Janjua
Summary: Over the last decade, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced significant economic development as one of the key areas for energy resources and minerals in the global market. The countries in this region are actively working to meet emission objectives and reduce climate change through policy initiatives. This research examines the role of renewable and non-renewable energy sources, as well as economic factors, in determining environmental quality in 41 Sub-Saharan countries from 2004 to 2021. The findings suggest that renewable energy improves environmental quality, while fossil fuel consumption degrades it. Additionally, human capital, technologies, and digitalization contribute to carbon emissions. Policymakers should focus on minimizing future carbon emissions, promoting renewable sources, and raising public awareness for sustainable development.
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Environmental Sciences
Uzair Ali, Qingbin Guo, Mustafa Tevfik Kartal, Zhanar Nurgazina, Zaid Ashiq Khan, Arshian Sharif
Summary: This research examines the relationship between renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, urban population, research and development expenditure, technological innovation, and carbon emissions intensity in China. The findings indicate both long-term and short-term correlations, with specific influences identified. Policies should focus on sustainable investment and carbon reduction initiatives.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Shubin Wang, Tingting Wang, Jiabao Li, Erlong Zhao
Summary: This study investigates the causal relationship between environmental sustainability, natural resources, economic performance, renewable energy, and technology nexus. The empirical findings suggest that natural resources have a positive impact on environmental sustainability, while the results of renewable energy and cleaner technology are negative.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Festus Fatai Adedoyin, Andrew Adewale Alola, Festus Victor Bekun
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between alternative and sustainable energy sources, trade, income, and emissions in 27 selected European Union economies. The long-term results reveal that sustainable energy sources have a negative impact on pollutant emissions, while trade and income have a positive impact on carbon emissions, with trade having an insignificant impact. The findings suggest the need for increased use of sustainable energy sources to mitigate carbon emissions in the EU.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Isaac Appiah-Otoo, Xudong Chen, Matthew Biniyam Kursah
Summary: This study examines the effects of renewable energy investment on carbon emissions, finding that solar and wind energy investment can reduce emissions after reaching a certain threshold, while small hydropower and biofuel investment increases emissions beyond a certain threshold. Additionally, solar, wind, and geothermal energy investment indirectly reduce emissions by promoting green economic growth.
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Environmental Sciences
Qiang Wang, Chen Zhang, Rongrong Li
Summary: This study examines the relationship between renewable energy consumption and carbon efficiency using data envelopment analysis. The results show that carbon efficiency improves with higher income levels and is mainly driven by technological progress. Low and middle-income countries have weaker scale efficiency, while renewable energy consumption positively affects carbon efficiency at all income levels, with the most significant impact seen in countries with middle income levels. Policy makers should promote renewable energy development to achieve energy transition and carbon reduction for sustainable development.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Talent Thebe Zwane, Thomas Bilaliib Udimal, Lariba Pakmoni
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of renewable energy consumption and agricultural economic growth on agricultural carbon emissions in Africa from 1990 to 2019. The study used panel fully modified ordinary least square (PFMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least square (PDOLS) estimation techniques. The results showed that agricultural economic growth had a positive and significant impact on agricultural carbon emissions in Africa, while renewable energy consumption had a negative impact. The study recommends promoting the use of renewable energy and adopting agricultural practices that limit carbon emissions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lichao Wu, Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Xiao-Guang Yue, Alican Umut
Summary: The Nordic nations have yet to make significant contributions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7 and 13, mainly due to financialization concerns and implementation issues in renewable energy generation. The study reveals that both financial development and renewable energy can reduce CO2 emissions, highlighting the need for policy shifts to align with the SDGs.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Festus Fatai Adedoyin, Dervis Kirikkaleli
Summary: The research reveals that in Brazil, renewable energy consumption promotes environmental sustainability, economic growth increases environmental degradation, and technological innovation improves environmental quality. Furthermore, renewable energy consumption, economic growth, technological innovation, and public-private partnership investment in energy can predict carbon emissions in Brazil.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Muhammad Alamgir, Ming-Chang Cheng
Summary: Green bonds play a pivotal role in promoting sustainability by channeling financial resources towards environmentally friendly projects. The research shows that green bonds have a significant influence on reducing carbon emissions and increasing renewable energy production, especially after 2015. Countries with higher green bond issuance are more likely to achieve their sustainability goals.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Constantinos Katrakilidis, Achillefs Karakotsios
Summary: This study examines the causal relationships among carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth, and renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in 68 developing countries from 1990 to 2014. The results suggest significant dynamic linkages among these variables and reveal possible differences in the impacts of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on environmental quality.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xinyue Zhang, Xingping Zhang
Summary: This study used specific causality tests to find that renewable energy has a positive impact on GDP in China, while non-renewable energy only has a positive impact on GDP in the short term. Additionally, the research suggests the need for stricter energy conservation policies and increasing the scale of renewable energy application.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Justice Gyimah, Isaac Sam Hayford, George Nyantakyi, Elvis Kwame Ofori
Summary: This study analyzes the impact of financial development and governance quality on carbon emissions in African countries and provides policy recommendations. The results indicate that financial development contributes to environmental pollution, while control of corruption, renewable energy, and economic growth promote ecological sustainability. Governments should include financial development plans in national environmental strategies and restrict the trade of high-carbon technologies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. P. Namahoro, Q. Wu, N. Zhou, S. Xue
Summary: This study empirically examined the long-term impact of energy intensity, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth on CO2 emissions across regions and income levels over 50 African countries from 1980 to 2018. The findings revealed that renewable energy consumption contributed to mitigating CO2 emissions, while energy intensity promoted emissions across regions and income levels, and at the African level. Economic growth affected CO2 emissions negatively at the African level but the effect was mixed across regions and income levels. The study also found bi-directional causations between CO2 emissions and its determinants in African, and some regions and income levels, with unidirectional causation highly supported across regions and income levels. Impulse response and variance decomposition analysis showed that both energy intensity and economic growth counted higher variations of CO2 emissions, while renewable energy highly contributed to reducing emissions within 10 years.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Liping Wang
Summary: This study examines the relationship between regional renewable energy consumption and carbon emissions in China using ARDL model and Granger causality test. The findings suggest that renewable energy consumption in China has a significant negative impact on carbon emissions in the long term, but not in the short term. Additionally, there are time lag effects between renewable energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jawad Abbas, Eyup Dogan
Summary: CSR and OGC have a significant impact on employees' behavior and they tend to behave in a socially responsible manner in society. The relationship between OGC and ERBS is partially mediated by CSR. Female workers tend to behave more socially responsibly than male workers.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe, Muhammad Tariq Majeed, Eyup Dogan
Summary: This study fills the gap in existing literature by examining the impacts of income inequality and poverty on environmental pollution. The findings suggest that income inequality and poverty are significant determinants of environmental degradation, highlighting the need to address poverty and inequality for achieving environmental sustainability.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eyup Dogan, Muhammad Tariq Majeed, Tania Luni
Summary: The study explores the causal relationship between bitcoin, clean energy, and carbon emissions allowances. The findings suggest that bitcoin is causally associated with both clean energy and emission allowances, although this relationship varies over time. The results provide a platform for government officials and policy managers to improve clean energy and carbon allowance markets for sustainable development.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe
Summary: This study examines the impacts of globalization and energy consumption on economic growth in low-income countries. It finds that overall globalization has a positive impact, with social and political dimensions boosting economic growth while the economic dimension undermines it. The study also shows that energy consumption, particularly non-renewable energy, is a significant determinant of economic growth. Additionally, there is a unidirectional causality from globalization to energy consumption. The findings suggest that efforts to accelerate economic growth should consider both globalization and energy consumption, while also identifying dimensions that can drive growth.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FINANCE & ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Business
Saeed Pahlevan Sharif, Navaz Naghavi, Hassam Waheed, Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe
Summary: This study investigates whether gender predicts financial inclusion and whether education can bridge the gender gap in financial inclusion. The findings suggest that there is a gender gap in financial inclusion when using basic measures, but the gap does not exist when considering formal savings and access to credit. Furthermore, the results show that education reduces the gender gap in basic financial inclusion.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGING MARKETS
(2022)
Article
Thermodynamics
Dilvin Taskin, Eyup Dogan, Mara Madaleno
Summary: This study analyzes the relationship between energy efficiency, energy research, pollution mitigation, and FinTech. The empirical results show that pollution mitigation temporarily causes energy efficiency in the short run, while energy efficiency has a causal effect on FinTech in the short, medium, and long run. The study also finds a bidirectional relationship between energy efficiency and environmental and financial variables.
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe, Muhammad Shahbaz, Xuan Vinh Vo
Summary: Tourism and globalization can contribute to economic growth but may also worsen environmental degradation. This study found that increasing globalization can mitigate the impact of tourism on carbon emissions, but its effect on ecological footprint is not significant. Therefore, countries should consider the interaction between tourism and globalization to ensure environmental sustainability.
JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eyup Dogan, Sabina Hodzic, Tanja Fatur Sikic
Summary: The modern lifestyle and economic development of the European Union countries are closely connected to high energy consumption and environmental pollution. Renewable energy has arisen as one solution to this problem, even though the obstacles and challenges regarding the deployment of renewable energy lie in high costs, technology and legislation. The investigation of the determinants of renewable energy has become very attractive and popular because of the Sustainable Development Goals and COP26 targets. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the role of energy taxes and environmental taxes in addition to that of economic and environmental indicators in renewable energy development for the panel of EU countries by applying reliable and robust econometric techniques to the annual data from 1995 to 2019. The empirical results suggest that an increase in economic growth and oil prices supports renewable energy while environmental taxes and energy taxes have a negative impact on renewable energy deployment in EU countries. Thus, it is crucial to reform the structure of taxes to support the use of renewable energy. In addition, increasing environmental taxes to transform EU countries into energy-efficient economies will require additional EU policy adjustments.
Article
Environmental Studies
Sabina Hodzic, Tanja Fatur Sikic, Eyup Dogan
Summary: The European Union aims to become a carbon-neutral continent by 2050 through the European Green Deal strategy and Sustainable Development Goals. Financial inclusion, natural resources, and interaction with a green environment are potential determinants in mitigating environmental challenges. However, there is a lack of clear evidence on how these factors interact in the EU.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eyup Dogan, Tania Luni, Muhammad Tariq Majeed, Panayiotis Tzeremes
Summary: This study analyzes the potential role of clean energy and carbon markets in ensuring environmental sustainability. The findings show that solar and biofuel are the highest net shock transmitters among renewable sources, while global carbon is the net receiver of shocks. The results also highlight the impact of economic crises on the interconnectedness between renewable energy and the environment.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Mara Madaleno, Dilvin Taskin, Eyup Dogan, Panayiotis Tzeremes
Summary: This study aims to explore the relationship between rare earth minerals, clean energy, renewable energy technologies, and carbon emissions. The results show that the spillovers among these variables depend on market conditions, time horizons, and analyzed quantiles. The findings highlight the role of rare earth minerals in the short term and provide insights for investors and policymakers.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe, Suresh Ramakrishnan, Hooi Hooi Lean, Sotheeswari Somasundram
Summary: This study investigates the moderating role of energy consumption on the environmental impacts of different sectors in Malaysia, including industrial, agricultural, financial, and service sectors. It also examines the marginal effects of sectoral growth on environmental pollution at various levels of energy consumption. The results suggest that energy consumption has a harmful moderating effect on the environmental impacts of industrial and financial sectors, but not on agricultural and service sectors.
Article
Economics
Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe
Summary: This study examines the drivers of environmental degradation in ASEAN + China, focusing on the impact of China's inclusion, financial development, and urbanization on the relationship between energy consumption and environmental degradation. The results show that economic growth, energy consumption, and non-renewable energy worsen environmental degradation, while renewable energy, foreign direct investment, and trade openness mitigate it. The inclusion of China weakens the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, and financial development has a favorable impact on ASEAN but adverse impact on ASEAN + China. Urbanization adversely moderates the impact of energy consumption on environmental degradation in both panels.
SINGAPORE ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)