Climate Change, Industrial Activity and Economic Growth: A Cross Regional Analysis

Paul I. Ojeaga and Sunday M. Posu
Additional contact information
Paul I. Ojeaga: College of Management Sciences Federal University of Agriculture. Abeokuta NIGERIA
Sunday M. Posu: College of Management Sciences Federal University of Agriculture. Abeokuta NIGERIA

Global Economic Observer, 2017, vol. 5, issue 2, 7-17

Abstract: Industrial Activity and its related output continue to contribute to economic growth for emerging and already developed World economies. Industrial activity also has strong negative consequences for the environment, one of which is climate change, attributable to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and other causatives. This study investigates the link between climate change, industr ial activity and growth for World regions using six regions of the World. The questions the study tries to answer include if industrial activity across regions were impacting climate change and if such industrial activity drives growth at the expense of climate change. The study provides an overview of the current implications of industrial activity on climate change at a time when world leaders and policy makers are drafting a World pollution mitigation blue print in Paris. It was found that there exists a link between industrial activity, climate change and economic growth. And that emission cuts and green economies are likely a way to go, in mitigating the impact of climate change on the environment.

Keywords: Climate Change; Entrepreneurial and Industrial Activity and efficiency; Innovation and Environmental Pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C5 Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.globeco.ro/wp-content/uploads/vol/split ... vol5_no2_art_001.pdf First version, 2017 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ntu:ntugeo:vol5-iss2-17-007

Access Statistics for this article

Global Economic Observer is currently edited by Serghei Margulescu and Simona Moagar-Poladian

More articles in Global Economic Observer from "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences Contact information at EDIRC., Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Stefan Ciucu ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).