Natural gas consumption, income, urbanization, and CO2 emissions in China and India.
The objective of this study is to examine the impact of natural gas consumption, output, and urbanization on CO2 emission in China and India for the period, 1965-2013. A cointegraton test, which provides for endogenously determined structural breaks, has been applied to examine the long-run relationship and to investigate the presence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in the two countries. The presence of causal relationship between the variables is also investigated. The findings show that there is a long-run relationship in the variables and natural gas, real GDP, and urbanization have long-run positive impact on emission in both countries. There is no evidence for EKC in China and India. The findings further suggest that there is a long-run feedback relationship between the variables. The policy inferences of these findings are discussed.
Knowledge Management, Economics and Quantitative Analysis Department, Multimedia University Malaysia, Room 4015, Faculty of Business, 75450, Melaka, Malaysia. sasolarin@mmu.edu.my.
Sakiru Adebola
SA
Solarin
Economics Program, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), 11800, Penang, Malaysia.
Hooi Hooi
HH
Lean
D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis*; D002681:China; D007182:Income; D007194:India; D059206:Natural Gas / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014507:Urbanization
D000393:Air Pollutants; D059206:Natural Gas; D002245:Carbon Dioxide
Causality; Cointegration; EKC; Natural gas consumption