Remittance and carbon dioxide emissions in the Southern African Customs Union region: Is there a modified environmental Kuznets curve?

IF 3.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI:10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100315

Mduduzi Biyase, Frederich Kirsten, Sandile Mbatha, Bereket Ataro

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Abstract

The remittance-carbon dioxide (

C O_{2}

) emissions nexus remains a hotly debated topic in the literature, with the majority of studies offering mixed conclusions. This study attempts to reconcile these disparities by investigating the nonlinear effect of remittances on the

C O_{2}

emissions in top-remittance receiving countries in Southern African Customs Union (SACU) region, using the modified Environmental Kuznets Curve framework which focuses on the effect that remittances might have on

C O_{2}

emissions. The Cross-Sectional Autoregressive Distributed Lag (CS-ADRL) approach is applied to these top-remittance receiving countries from 1990 to 2020, representing a pioneering investigation for these countries. The finding of this study reveal that both the estimated coefficient of remittances and its quadratic term are statistically significant, with remittances displaying a positive coefficient and the quadratic term exhibiting a negative coefficient. This pattern confirms the presence of a modified EKC hypothesis, meaning as remittances increases,

C O_{2}

levels displays an unambiguous inverted U-shaped trajectory.

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南部非洲关税同盟地区的汇款和二氧化碳排放：是否存在修正的环境库兹涅茨曲线？

汇款与二氧化碳（CO2）排放之间的关系仍然是文献中争论的热点，大多数研究得出的结论不一。本研究采用修正的环境库兹涅茨曲线（Environmental Kuznets Curve）框架，调查了汇款对南部非洲关税同盟（SACU）地区主要汇款接收国二氧化碳排放的非线性影响，重点研究汇款可能对二氧化碳排放产生的影响，试图调和这些差异。横截面自回归分布滞后（CS-ADRL）方法适用于 1990 年至 2020 年期间这些汇款最多的国家，这是对这些国家进行的一项开创性调查。研究结果表明，汇款及其二次项的估计系数在统计意义上都是显著的，汇款的系数为正，二次项的系数为负。这一模式证实了修正的 EKC 假设的存在，即随着汇款的增加，二氧化碳水平呈现出明确的倒 U 型轨迹。

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Sustainable Futures Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

9.30

自引率

1.80%

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审稿时长

71 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Futures: is a journal focused on the intersection of sustainability, environment and technology from various disciplines in social sciences, and their larger implications for corporation, government, education institutions, regions and society both at present and in the future. It provides an advanced platform for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development in society, economics, environment, and culture. The scope of the journal is broad and encourages interdisciplinary research, as well as welcoming theoretical and practical research from all methodological approaches.