Samiha Khan

• Master of Science in Economics
• North South University

Bangladesh has recently pledged at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to reduce its carbon dioxide emission figures by 22% at the end of 2030. However, since this South Asian country has always turned to fossil fuels for electricity generation purposes, achieving this emission reduction goal is a challenging task for the Bangladesh government....

China’s 2060 carbon neutrality agenda requires implementation of policies that can decouple economic growth from environmental pollution. Hence, establishing green growth in the Chinese economy is of utmost significance. Hence, this study questions whether the depth of Chinese financial markets matters for establishing green growth. Besides, the gr...

Although switching from non-renewable to renewable energy is believed to stimulate low-carbon growth, the means to achieving this energy transition and their economic and environmental effects have largely remained unexplored. Therefore, this study focuses on evaluating how public investment in renewable energy-related research and development proj...

The economies of the majority of the South Asian countries have substantially expanded in the last couple of decades. Nevertheless, the simultaneous deterioration in environmental quality questions the quality of such growth performances of the South Asian countries in light of their environmental sustainability objectives. As a result, limiting th...

In the contemporary era, tackling climate change-related problems has become a vital environmental policy agenda, especially for realizing the targets related to SDG-13. Therefore, this study aims to check the efficacy of scaling public investments in research and development for renewable energy development in countering the causes and effects of...

The objective of this study is to evaluate whether improving the efficiency at which energy is employed can help Sub-Saharan African nations to attain their energy sustainability objectives. As opposed to the conventional approaches, the multidimensional aspects of energy sustainability are captured in this study by predicting an energy sustainabil...

The economies and population sizes of the Next Eleven countries are anticipated to surge in the next couple of decades whereby their energy demands can be assumed to rise in tandem. However, meeting the rising energy demand with the traditionally-consumed unclean energy resources can impose adverse environmental consequences. As a result, achieving...