Unraveling the dynamic nexus between economic complexity, renewable energy consumption, energy imports, and environmental quality in Pakistan.
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| Title: | Unraveling the dynamic nexus between economic complexity, renewable energy consumption, energy imports, and environmental quality in Pakistan. |
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| Authors: | Sharif, Muhammad1 (AUTHOR) sharifbwp@gmail.com, Khan, Farzana Naheed1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Environment, Development & Sustainability. Feb2026, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p5053-5083. 31p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Environmental quality, *Renewable energy sources, *Econometrics, *Economic indicators, *Carbon emissions, *Ecological impact, *Fossil fuels |
| Geographic Terms: | Pakistan |
| Abstract: | Economic activity that aims to increase economic growth has raised environmental concerns around the globe, like rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, changes in seasonality, flooding, disrupting economies, and loss of biodiversity and people's lives. This study is the first to explore the empirical impact of economic complexity, renewable energy consumption, and fossil fuel energy imports on environmental quality in Pakistan using data between 1980 and 2018 by employing two environmental indicators: CO2 emissions and the ecological footprint. We employ an appropriate autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method for the time series dataset to measure the short-run and long-run relationship among the study variables. Empirical results show that renewable energy consumption plays a leading role in improving environmental quality, while economic complexity and energy imports play a part in deteriorating the environment. Because economic complexity (transformation) significantly reduces environmental quality, it is necessary to adjust existing industrial and production arrangements to achieve economic growth without environmental degradation. Given the critical role of renewable energy in improving environmental quality, policymakers must devise strategies for replacing fossil fuel energy imports with indigenous renewable energy sources like combustible renewables and waste consumption, hydel, solar, and wind energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Database: | Energy & Power Source |
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