How do energy consumption, output, energy price, and population growth correlate with CO 2 emissions in Liberia?

Abimelech Paye Gbatu, Zhen Wang, Presley K. Wesseh Junior and Vamuyan A. Sesay

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2019, vol. 18, issue 3, 209-235

Abstract: Researches that provide insights on major environmental matters are necessary for policy decision making in Liberia. Therefore, we employ autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to gauge short-and-long-run associations between CO₂ emissions and Liberia's key macroeconomic variables. The ARDL long-run outcomes are compared against results from dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) approach. The short-run outcomes reveal that energy consumption (EC) and real output (GDP) have significant positive impacts on CO₂ emissions in Liberia. In the long-run, both ARDL and DOLS estimates show significant positive impacts of EC, real GDP and oil price on CO₂ emissions. Hence, we find the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for Liberia. Therefore, we argue that EC is the main factor that promotes economic growth in Liberia, but growth in EC and real GDP stimulate CO₂ emissions growth. Thus, new carbon free technologies that reduce dependence on primary energy use are required.

Keywords: autoregressive distributed lag model; ARDL; economic growth; energy consumption; CO 2 emissions; environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis; EKC; Liberia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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