Evaluation of the relationship between freight transport, energy consumption, economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions: the VECM approach

Nadia Benali () and Rochdi Feki ()
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Nadia Benali: Sfax University
Rochdi Feki: Sfax University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2020, vol. 22, issue 2, No 21, 1039-1049

Abstract: Abstract This paper employs Granger causality test and variance decompositions to investigate the dynamic links between freight transport, energy consumption, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions for Tunisia over the period 1982–2016. The empirical results show that there is a bidirectional link between economic growth and freight transport and bidirectional link between freight transport and energy consumption. In addition, there is a unidirectional link from energy consumption to CO2 emissions and unidirectional link running from freight transport to CO2 emissions. Moreover, economic growth is responsible of CO2 emissions.

Keywords: Freight transport; CO2 emissions; Energy consumption and economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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