Impact of public-private partnerships investment and FDI on CO 2 emissions: A study of six global investment countries.
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- Academic Journal
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- Raghutla C; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati, India. Electronic address: chandrashekareco@gmail.com.; Malik MN; Institute of Business & Management, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Electronic address: nasir.malik@uet.edu.pk.; Hameed A; Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.hameed@fashion.arts.ac.uk.; Chittedi KR; School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Electronic address: krc@uohyd.ac.in.
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- Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0401664 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1095-8630 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03014797 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Environ Manage Subsets: MEDLINE
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- English
This study investigates the impact of public-private partnerships investment in energy and FDI on environmental quality in global investment countries during 1995-2018. Economic growth, technological innovations and consumption of clean energy are also considered as additional determinants of environmental quality. The study applied advanced panel econometric models. Our empirical results affirm the evidence of a long-run association between environmental quality and its determinants. Specifically, economic growth as well as clean energy use improves quality of environment by lowering carbon emissions. Public-private partnerships investment in energy, FDI and technological innovations decrease carbon emissions. Energy consumption (generated from fossil fuel) increases carbon emissions. Heterogeneous causality evidence indicates the presence of a unidirectional causality relation from carbon emissions to public-private partnerships investment in energy and a feedback causality occurs between consumption of clean energy and CO 2 emissions. This empirical evidence provides new insights for both policymakers and governments to support public-private partnership investments in energy for the improvement of quality of environment in global investment countries.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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