Role of education and economic growth on the CO2 emissions in Saudi Arabia

Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb (), Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb (), Haider Mahmood (), Nouf Naser Altamimi () and Maham Furqan ()
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Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb: Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb: Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt
Nouf Naser Altamimi: Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Maham Furqan: Oregon State University, United States

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2020, vol. 8, issue 2, 195-209

Abstract: Education can play an effective role in building social responsibility in a community which can help to reduce pollution emissions. This present research investigates the effects of education, energy consumption and economic growth on CO2 emissions in Saudi Arabia using data of a period 1971-2014. We find that primary education could not affect CO2 emissions, but, secondary education has a negative effect while energy consumption has a positive effect on CO2 emissions. In the long run, an inverted U-shaped relationship is found between CO2 emissions and economic growth and Kingdom is found at first stage. Hence, economic growth is responsible for environmental degradation. We recommend to enhance the secondary education to improve the environment of the Kingdom and to use cleaner source of energy to avoid negative environmental consequences of economic growth.

Keywords: education; economic growth; energy consumption; CO2 emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 K32 O44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(12)

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