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| A map depicting world energy consumption per capita based on 2003 data from the IEA. (c) International Energy Agency & SG |
Muhammad Azhar Khan, Muhammad Zahir Khan, Khalid Zaman, Lubna Naz from Pakistan have written this review about energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission at global scale. The abstract follows.
The present study examines the long-run relationship between energy
consumption and greenhouse gas emission for different groups of
countries comprising lower middle income, upper middle income, and
heavily indebted countries, East Asia and Pacific, East Europe and
Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa,
South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and for aggregate data of the world. The
data has been analyzed by using various econometric techniques,
specifically the Johnson cointegration, modified version of Granger
causality and variance decomposition analysis from the period of 1975 to
2011. The results confirm that there is a long-run relationship between
greenhouse gas emissions (i.e. agricultural methane emission,
agricultural nitrous oxide emission and carbon dioxide emission) and
energy consumption. The results of Granger causality indicate that
energy consumption Granger causes greenhouse gas emission but not vice
versa. The important finding is that energy consumption Granger causes
GDP per unit energy use, which confirms the energy led growth hypothesis
in the world. However, the vice versa relationship does not hold. The
results imply that a policy to cut energy consumption tends to diminish
greenhouse gas emission though affecting GDP of countries negatively.
More information about the article: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Volume 29, January 2014, Pages 336–344
Authors and affiliations:
Department of Economics, University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, Pakistan
Muhammad Azhar Khan
Muhammad Azhar Khan
Islamia university of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Muhammad Zahir Khan
Muhammad Zahir Khan
Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Khalid Zaman
Khalid Zaman
Department of Economics, Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan
Lubna Naz
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