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The previous studies focused on environmental issues, identifying their root causes, urging prompt action to reduce environmental degradation. In this context, the current article extends the literature by incorporating the ecological impacts on the health sector and the role of sustainable development. The present study adds to the body of knowled...
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... Degradation of the environment is likely to stifle growth and progress, increase vulnerability, affect people's health, and drive them back into poverty [85]. Environmental degradation, caused by unsustainable practices in renewable energy production and consumption, can worsen issues such as climate change and air pollution. ...
The increasing urbanization and growth of cities worldwide have led to a significant increase in energy demand. As a transition to a low carbon environment occurs, the role of renewable and sustainable energy systems in urban areas is benefiting industry and the environment alike. From this perspective, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a lot to offer to the energy industry, particularly the integration of renewable and sustainable energy systems for environmental protection in cities. This study presents a comprehensive view that integrates technological, economic, political, and social challenges confronted with the effective implementation of renewable and sustainable energy in urban cities and proposes a solution agenda to overcome these hurdles with the aid of the SDGs. The weights for the challenges of adopting renewable and sustainable energy systems were determined using the Fuzzy Best-Worst Method. The SDGs were then ranked using the fuzzy TOPSIS technique to overcome predetermined challenges. The originality of this study lies in finding solutions to the determined challenges by adopting SDGs, emphasizing the need for integrated solutions that address energy-related concerns, and highlighting the role and importance of SDGs in environmental protection. The study highlights the importance of SDGs in promoting renewable energy integration in urban areas, with SDG 11 being the most crucial to mitigate harmful environmental occurrences related to energy-related issues in urban areas, followed by SDG 7 and SDG 13.
... This research has been conducted either on individual countries or cities or in a comparative framework, often encompassing both SAARC and non-SAARC countries. These studies have explored topics such as the escalation of environmental degradation and the repercussions of foreign direct investment (Waqih et al. 2019), the quality of the environment (Khalid et al. 2021), the deterioration of the environment coupled with advancements in energy efficiency (Zhong et al. 2022), the agricultural sector's subset and its relationship with CO 2 emissions using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (Shakoor et al. 2023), the intersection of CO 2 emissions and Sustainable Development Goals (Rahman et al. 2022), the interplay between institutional quality and environmental sustainability (Ur Rehman and Gill 2023), the nexus between renewable energy and the environment (Kartal et al. 2023), the interrelation of renewable and non-renewable energy within the context of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (Voumik et al. 2023), the efficiency of water and carbon usage (Kumar et al. 2023), the connection between industrial competitiveness and environmental sustainability (Iqbal et al. 2023), and the environmental ramifications of energy consumption, financial development, and globalization (Verma et al. 2023). Furthermore, these investigations delve into the involvement of member nations in various international environmental frameworks. ...
Environmental SDGs, or Sustainable Development Goals, are a set of targets outlined by the United Nations to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time. These goals aim to promote sustainable development by addressing issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. By achieving these goals, we can safeguard the planet’s resources for future generations while improving the quality of life for people around the world. This research investigates the effect of environmental SDGs on economic growth (GDPGRO) at the disaggregated level, with two dimensions: economic and social goals. Using panel data from selected SAARC countries between 2000 and 2020, we employ a panel ARDL (PMG) technique. The finding of this study shows that increasing access to SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), SDG 13 (climate action), and SSDGs (social Sustainable Development Goals) is negatively associated with potential decreases in economic growth which can occur in several ways, such as increased government spending and taxes, redistributive policies, and regulations that increase costs for businesses. Promoting SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities) and SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production) can lead to long-term economic growth. SDG 15 (life below water) and ESDGs (economic Sustainable Development Goals) have a positive relationship with economic growth by conserving and sustainably using terrestrial ecosystems that can contribute to economic growth in the long term. ESDGs lead to increased income, improved living standards, and reduced poverty and inequality. Policies should prioritize disaster risk mitigation, align climate change goals with sustainable development goals, and promote sustainable production and consumption. This can be achieved by incentivizing cleaner energy sources and sustainable cities. To balance economic growth with sustainability, policies should encourage responsible business practices and sustainable industries.
... Many studies have examined the relationship between energy consumption policies for both renewable and non-renewable sources, economic growth, and other factors [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. However, none of these studies have considered the role of institutional quality in BRI and its subgroups by income level. ...
Institutions and energy production sources shape environmental policies and practices. Institutions establish frameworks for renewable energy and enforce environmental protection measures. Conventional energy sources cause pollution and climate change, while green energy sources have lower environmental impacts. In this study we analyzed how quality institutions, along with different types of energy production sources affect the quality of environment in 101 countries that are part of the BRI, a global development project. We used a statistical method called panel quantile regression to analyze data from 2000 to 2020. We found that producing energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, reduces CO 2 emissions by 0.003% in BRI countries. However, producing energy from non-renewable sources, such as gas and coal, harms the environment more in high-income and middle-income countries. We also found that having better institutional quality reduces CO 2 emissions by 3.421%, 2.710%, and 0.006% in different groups of BRI countries. This means that having stronger and fairer institutions can help protect the environment by limiting the use of non-renewable energy sources and encouraging the use of renewable ones. Our study suggests that improving institutional quality is a key factor for achieving green energy and environmental sustainability in BRI countries.
... Deforestation and the subsequent emissions of greenhouse gases have been linked to rises in forest rent. The findings support the work of Husnain et al. (2022) and (Zhong et al. 2022) and demonstrate that an increase of 1% in woodland capital rent may cause an increase of 0.19% in ED in the countries of East and South Asia. The results also demonstrate that long-term NR rents in the fast industrializing East and South Asian region have an impact on carbon emissions. ...
Rapid economic expansion has caused resource depletion, globalization issues, and environmental deterioration. Globalization has highlighted East and South Asian mineral richness. This article investigates the effects of technological innovation (TI), natural resources, globalization, and renewable energy consumption (REC) on environmental deterioration in the East and South Asian region from 1990 to 2021. The cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) estimator is used to estimate short- and long-run slope parameters and dependencies across countries. The results demonstrate that many natural resources significantly enhance environmental degradation, while globalization, TI, and REC reduce emission levels in East and South Asian economies and that economic growth significantly degrades ecological quality. This research suggests that governments in the East and South Asian region develop suitable policies that promote the efficient use of natural resources via technological advancements. Furthermore, future policies regarding energy consumption, globalization, and economic development should be aligned with the aims of sustainable environmental development.
... Environmental consciousness, according to many researchers, influences environmental behavior ; Ruoyu et al., (2022); Asilsoy and Oktay (2018)). According to Savari et al., (2022a), in recent years, natural resources and forest resources have been in danger of widespread deterioration. ...
In this era of rapid growth, human development and environmental protection both need to be managed side by side. That is what ecological civilization is all about. However, the benefits of ecological civilization fall short of expectations, particularly for university students. Consequently, the study’s objective is to assess how university students in Pakistan might increase their commitment to an ecological civilization. A questionnaire survey is conducted based on the trends and interpersonal behavior model to examine the current state of the variables influencing university students’ ecological civilization behavior. We used SEM-PLS and SMART_PLS 3.3 software for data analysis. The finding shows the infrastructure now available in that society is insufficient for an ecological civilization. In light of the fact that certain university students' personal goals collide with the environment, they would not implement the idea of ecological civilization. Also, university students were unable to actively engage in the creation of an ecological civilization. Therefore, it is essential to secure cooperative efforts in order to advance ecological civilization practice among civilians, households, the government, students, and societies. Every university student’s effort is important to the practice of ecological civilization. The government, social organizations, families, and universities should establish enabling conditions so students can adopt appropriate ecological civilization practices. University students should be educated both directly and indirectly by society, families, and universities to help them recognize their duties and develop a positive self-concept.
... The increasing need for economies to promote energy efficiency through technology has taken center stage in international policy discussions over the last decade due to increasing threats posed by the irresponsible use of energy. Zhong et al. (2022) investigated how both environmental degradation and efficient energy link to health expenditures in SAARC countries in delivering sustainable development. The outcomes indicated that energy efficiency and sustainable development had a negative effect on both health expenditures and CO 2 emissions. ...
Due to the incessant quest for economic growth, global energy demand has increased to a level that requires urgent rethinking. The Netherlands depends heavily on traditional energy sources, which are finite and equally emit a lot of greenhouse gasses, causing further environmental destruction. To sustain economic growth and protect the ecosystem, it is crucial for the Netherlands to consume energy efficiently. Given that policy directions are required, this paper investigates the effect of energy productivity on environmental degradation in the Netherlands between 1990Q1 and 2019Q4, using the Fourier ARDL (autoregressive distributed lag) and Fourier Toda-Yamamoto causality approaches. The Fourier ADL estimates indicate that all variables are cointegrated. Additionally, the long-run Fourier ARDL estimates indicate that investments in energy productivity could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the Netherlands. Furthermore, the Fourier Toda-Yamamoto causality outcomes suggest that energy productivity, economic growth, and renewable energy consumption have a unidirectional causal effect on CO2 emissions. These revealing outcomes provide significant policy insights for the Netherlands' energy productivity objectives in their new energy policy proposed in 2022. The government could, through the new energy policy, increase investment in smart meters and review existing fossil fuel subsidies and energy trade taxes. Additionally, the government could consider reviewing the Netherlands' economic structure by increasing the share of the primary and tertiary sectors to the rising economic growth to reduce energy consumption.
... Ship emissions also hurt the marine environment. Conventional air pollutants in shipping emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur oxide (SOx), nitrogen oxide (NOx), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), particular matter with a diameter less than 10 μm (PM10, PM2.5), volatile organic components (VOCs), carbon monoxide (CO), and black carbon (Eyring et al. 2010;Zhong et al. 2022;Akbar et al. 2021). Shipping emissions contributed approximately 15% of global NOx and 5-8% of global SOx emissions (Corbett et al. 2007). ...
As a result of the globalization of production processes and the expansion of international trade, both water-based trade and the use of marine energy are expanding quickly. Marine energy consumption is rapidly increasing as a result of globalization. Despite being ignored for many decades, reducing marine emissions is today a top priority among European nations. Thus, the present study contributes to the existing literature by investigating the nexus between marine energy consumption, seaborne trade, and GHG emissions by employing time series data for eight Northern European nations from 2005 to 2017. The extended EKC model and three proxy variables for seaborne trade (i.e., container throughput, liner shipping connectivity index, and trade openness) are used to investigate the nexus between these variables. FMOLS and DOLS methods have been employed to control the problems of endogeneity and serial correlation. Only in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden did the data corroborate an inverted U-shaped relationship (the EKC curve) between maritime GHG emissions and economic development. The increase in energy utilization across all nations directly increased marine GHG emissions; however, the adverse effect of energy consumption on the environment is severe in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Container throughput, linear shipping connectivity index, and trade openness exhibit a positive impact on marine GHG emissions. The impact of seaborne proxy variables is severe in Denmark and Sweden. In order to have a robust assessment and to confirm the validity and uniformity of the results, Driscoll-Kraay standard errors (DKSE) and robust standard error (RSE) regression techniques are being employed.
... It argues that large-scale sustainability transitions in transportation, energy, and agri-food socio-technical systems are required to address them (3). The multi-level perspective in this research stream hypothesizes sustainability alterations as green niche innovations battling against existing (unsound) systems and possibly substituting or reconfiguring these systems [e.g., (4)(5)(6)]. Health problems are on the rise as a result of an unsustainable environment (7). ...
... As of 1960 and 1993, public funding in the United Kingdom was 85 and 86%, respectively. Health outcomes vary between countries for a variety of reasons, not only the amount of money spent on public health care (6). Aside from socio-economic variables, demographics, and health behaviors, these factors may also have a role. ...
... Health shocks tend to be better handled by households with access to microcredit than households without access to micro-credit. Zhong et al. (6) investigated the long-run linkages between economic and financial risk in the MINT economies from 1984 to 2014. They employed the Wavelet analysis and found the one-way causal association from economic risk to financial risk for Mexico and financial risk to economic risk for Turkey. ...
Policymakers worldwide have been actively involved in the past few decades to ensure that human diseases are kept to a minimum. A new econometric technique, dynamic ARDL simulations, was used in this study to estimate and model the influence of health expenditures on investment in non-financial assets in China from 1990 to 2019. An economic growth framework, gross capital formation, information and communication technologies, foreign direct investment, and carbon emissions are all considered in the empirical model—the analysis produced interesting results. First, the estimates show that health expenditures and foreign direct investment have a significant long-run decreasing impact on non-financial assets in China by 0.451 and 0.234%. Second, economic growth and gross capital formation significantly affect the economy's non-financial assets. Likewise, ICT and carbon emissions also positively correlate with an explained variable in China. The findings show that the economy is becoming less investment-intensive as health spending and foreign direct investment rise. The study develops important policy implications for the selected country to achieve desired targets based on the empirical results.
... On the other hand, the level of carbon emissions creates health hazards that may impact public health and may have an effect on it; this may lead to increased healthcare costs. With this in mind, Zhang et al. (98) performed an analysis to determine the carbon footprint of the health industry in Australia. They discovered that the use of renewable energy in the health industry in Australia resulted in a decrease of ∼14% of the industry's overall carbon footprint. ...
The current study tries to summarize the leading factors and their behavior toward the environmental quality. Therefore, this study investigates the environment-development linkage in China's economy covering the period of 1984–2018. In order to investigate the proposed objectives, the current study uses the dynamic ordinary least square, fully modified ordinary least square and canonical co-integration regression with granger causality test. The results reveal that there exists an inverted U-shaped relationship in China's economy. Likewise, urbanization positively contributes to environmental deterioration. Furthermore, the health expenditures also cause to deteriorate the environmental quality. In contrast, there exists the negative association between good governance and carbon emissions, while the rule of law in China's economy does not secure the environmental quality. Therefore, environmental regulation policies need to be revised in order to achieve a sustainable environment. As a result, we recommend that China continue to expand its economy and invest in health care and environmental initiatives.
... A further study indicated that the corporate social responsibility report published by different corporations, as observed during the pandemic of COVID-19, has a favorable link with investment in renewable energy projects. In agreement with previous research by Zhong et al. (2022), these findings support the hypothesis being advanced. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports emphasize the importance of environmental sustainability, so companies invest in renewable energy projects to reduce emissions of hazardous gasses and chemicals by recycling energy resources. ...
One of the most frequently used terms in climate change discussions is environmental sustainability. With economic growth and foreign direct investment as moderator factors, this study investigates the influence of green finance and financial development on environmental sustainability and growth in ASEAN economies from 2012 to 2019. ADF and Phillip-Peron (PP) unit root tests, fully modified least square (FMOLS), were employed for long-run empirical estimates. A substantial body of evidence supports the study’s findings using VECM technology. Green financing was negatively associated with CO2 emissions. However, environmental sustainability in ASEAN is favorably associated with green financing. It is also worth noting that green financing promotes environmental sustainability at the expenditure of economic growth. Financial development, foreign direct investment, R&D investment, and green technology foster economic expansion at the price of environmental sustainability. There are still many fences to green finance that need to be addressed, including pricing CO2 emissions and reforming inefficient nonrenewable fossil fuel subsidies. Local governments play a vital role in eliminating these barriers and addressing disincentives. It is recommended that policymakers push the financial sector to adopt a green finance strategy to further the goals of long-term sustainable development. Industry must integrate multiple objectives, such as inclusive growth and environmental protection and productivity, through an even broader range of legislative frameworks ideal for decoupling growth from social and ecological unsustainability, at the heart of the green manufacturing process.
