Do structural change and forest load capacity factor provide a reduction in carbon emissions in the BRICS countries?

IF 2.9 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Air Quality Atmosphere and Health Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI:10.1007/s11869-024-01646-8

Ugur Korkut Pata, Selin Karlilar Pata

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Abstract

The BRICS countries are the group of developing countries that cause the highest carbon emissions and therefore the actions of these countries are important for global carbon mitigation. The fact that Russia, Brazil, China and India are four of the ten countries with the largest forest areas makes the investigation of the impact of forest areas on carbon reduction in the BRICS countries the focus of this study. In this context, this study explores the influence of forest load capacity factor (FCLF), structural change (STC) and income on carbon emissions in BRICS countries from 2000 to 2022. To this end, the study applies augmented mean group (AMG) and regularized common correlated effect (rCCE) approaches. The outcomes document that income increases carbon emissions, while STC and FCLF contribute to decarbonization. In view of these results, the governments of the BRICS countries should support an environmental structural change and take sustainable measures to increase the quality of forest areas.

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Air Quality Atmosphere and Health ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-

CiteScore

8.80

自引率

2.00%

发文量

146

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health is a multidisciplinary journal which, by its very name, illustrates the broad range of work it publishes and which focuses on atmospheric consequences of human activities and their implications for human and ecological health. It offers research papers, critical literature reviews and commentaries, as well as special issues devoted to topical subjects or themes. International in scope, the journal presents papers that inform and stimulate a global readership, as the topic addressed are global in their import. Consequently, we do not encourage submission of papers involving local data that relate to local problems. Unless they demonstrate wide applicability, these are better submitted to national or regional journals. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health addresses such topics as acid precipitation; airborne particulate matter; air quality monitoring and management; exposure assessment; risk assessment; indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric modeling and prediction; air pollution climatology; climate change and air quality; air pollution measurement; atmospheric impact assessment; forest-fire emissions; atmospheric science; greenhouse gases; health and ecological effects; clean air technology; regional and global change and satellite measurements. This journal benefits a diverse audience of researchers, public health officials and policy makers addressing problems that call for solutions based in evidence from atmospheric and exposure assessment scientists, epidemiologists, and risk assessors. Publication in the journal affords the opportunity to reach beyond defined disciplinary niches to this broader readership.