Exploring China's Carbon Emission Reduction: the Role of Renewable Energy, Remittance, and Technological Innovation

EasyChair Preprint 15505, version 2

Abstract

The environmental impacts of renewable energy, remittances, and technological innovation remain underexplored, although existing research suggests they play a vital role in enhancing socioeconomic development. This study bridges the gap by examining annual data from 1990 to 2020 to determine how these factors influence carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China. Employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing method, the study found consistent relationships between CO2 emissions and the key variables. Both short- and long-term ARDL analyses revealed that while economic growth contributes to rising CO2 emissions, renewable energy adoption, remittance flows, and technological progress help to curb emissions. To validate these findings, fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR) techniques were applied. Based on these significant insights, the study proposes several policy measures to further reduce carbon emissions.

Keyphrases: ARDL, China, Remittance, renewable energy, technological innovation

@booklet{EasyChair:15505,
  author    = {Ayodele Oluwaseun},
  title     = {Exploring China's Carbon Emission Reduction: the Role of Renewable Energy, Remittance, and Technological Innovation},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 15505},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}