When do climate change legislation and clean energy policies matter for net-zero emissions?

Anis Omri () and Sabri Boubaker
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Sabri Boubaker: VNU - Vietnam National University [Hanoï], Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School, Swansea University

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Abstract: Achieving the global decarbonization goal under global conflicts is becoming more uncertain. Within this context, this article seeks to examine the effects of global environmental management and efforts to achieve this goal. Specifically, it investigates the role of democracy, control of corruption, and civil society participation as mechanisms that moderate the impact of environmental policy and legislation, particularly clean energy policy and climate change legislation (laws and regulations), on carbon emissions in highly polluted countries. The empirical results show that (i) the effects of democracy-clean energy policies and climate change legislation are relatively small in reducing carbon emissions; (ii) the effect of controlling corruption-climate change regulations is strong in reducing emissions, meaning that governments with higher control of corruption are more effective at enacting and executing laws and regulations dealing with environmental challenges which help achieve desirable environmental outcomes; (iii) strong civil society participation helps the execution of clean energy policies and climate change legislation to curb emissions, and (iv) the robustness check also provides strong evidence that higher control of corruption can contribute to the effectiveness of these policies and legislation in reducing carbon emissions. Overall, these findings suggest that the efficiency of well-designed environmental policy and legislation should be supported by a combination of higher civil society participation and greater control of corruption that can efficiently enforce such policies and legislation.

Keywords: Clean energy policies; Climate change legislation; Carbon neutrality; Political institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02-15
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Published in Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 354, pp.120275. ⟨10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120275⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120275

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