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Testing the pollution haven hypothesis on the pathway of sustainable development: Accounting the role of nuclear energy consumption  

Danish, Danish (School of Economics and Trade, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Ud-Din Khan, Salah (Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET) Center, College of Engineering, King Saud University)
Ahmad, Ashfaq (Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.53, no.8, 2021 , pp. 2746-2752 More about this Journal
Abstract
The environmental effects of China's nuclear energy consumption in a dynamic framework of the pollution haven hypothesis are examined. This study uses a dynamic autoregressive distributed lag simulation approach. Empirical evidence confirms that the pollution haven hypothesis does not exist for China; i.e., foreign direct investment plays a promising role in influencing environmental outcomes. Furthermore, empirical results concluded positive contribution of nuclear energy in pollution mitigation. From the results it is expected that encouraging foreign investment to increase generation of nuclear energy would benefit environmental quality by reducing CO2 emissions.
Keywords
Nuclear energy; Carbon emissions; Pollution haven hypothesis; Dynamic autoregressive distributed lag method; China;
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