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DOI	10.1016/j.renene.2022.06.130
	The role of exogenous technological factors and renewable energy in carbon dioxide emission reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
	Edziah, Bless Kofi; Sun, Huaping; Adom, Philip Kofi; Wang, Feng; Agyemang, Andrew Osei
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0960-1481
EISSN	1879-0682
起始页码	1418
结束页码	1428
卷号	196
英文摘要	There is global consensus that an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, is driving climate change. To deal with this issue, governments all around the world have committed to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. For developing economies like Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), studies have suggested adopting low-carbon technologies from developed countries while at the same time exploiting their vast renewable energy resources to reduce CO2 emissions. Particularly, from a developing economy perspective, we note little knowledge exists empirically on the role of technological factors in carbon dioxide emissions. This study contributes to this gap by exploring the effects of various exogenous technological factors [measured in terms of machinery and equipment imports, stock of foreign machinery research and development (R&D) spillovers, foreign direct investment (FDI)] and renewable energy on CO2 emissions, employing data from 18 countries in SSA between 1995 and 2017 and the dynamic specific common correlated effect estimator (DCCE) technique. The findings reveal that both machinery imports and renewable energy usage reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly, but the effect of the latter is larger. Although FDI shows CO2 emission reducing effect, it is less pronounced. However, foreign R&D increases carbon dioxide emissions in the region. Further robustness checks confirm these results. These results suggest that important synergies exist among SDG13, SDG 7 and SDG 9. We discuss the policy implications.
英文关键词	Carbon emissions; R&D; FDI; Machinery imports; Renewable energy
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Energy & Fuels
WOS类目	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000879766100004
来源期刊	RENEWABLE ENERGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/281018
作者单位	Jiangsu University; Shandong University; Chongqing University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Edziah, Bless Kofi,Sun, Huaping,Adom, Philip Kofi,et al. The role of exogenous technological factors and renewable energy in carbon dioxide emission reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa[J],2022,196.
APA	Edziah, Bless Kofi,Sun, Huaping,Adom, Philip Kofi,Wang, Feng,&Agyemang, Andrew Osei.(2022).The role of exogenous technological factors and renewable energy in carbon dioxide emission reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa.RENEWABLE ENERGY,196.
MLA	Edziah, Bless Kofi,et al."The role of exogenous technological factors and renewable energy in carbon dioxide emission reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa".RENEWABLE ENERGY 196(2022).