Energy consumption, economic growth, and carbon emissions: Challenges faced by an EU candidate member

SOYTAŞ U., Sari R.

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, cilt.68, sa.6, ss.1667-1675, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 68 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.06.014
  • Dergi Adı: ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1667-1675
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Carbon dioxide emissions, Economic growth, Energy consumption, Turkey, ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE, IMPULSE-RESPONSE ANALYSIS, CO2 EMISSIONS, REAL INCOME, UNIT-ROOT, CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP, TIME-SERIES, TEMPORAL CAUSALITY, GDP, COINTEGRATION
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper investigates the long run Granger causality relationship between economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption in Turkey, controlling for gross fixed capital formation and labor. The most interesting result is that carbon emissions seem to Granger cause energy consumption, but the reverse is not true. The lack of a long run causal link between income and emissions may be implying that to reduce carbon emissions, Turkey does not have to forgo economic growth. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.