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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological innovation and digitalization are widely viewed as key drivers of sustainable development, yet their effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions remains uncertain. This study examines how technological innovation, digitalization, energy structure, and economic activity shape both CO2 emissions and total factor productivity in 22 ...
Muhammad Waqas Khalid +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how green and non‐green goods, energy transition, digitalization, economic growth, and population affect the material footprint of G‐7 countries from 1990 to 2023. Using an extended STIRPAT framework, we show that green and non‐green goods increase material footprint, demonstrating the resource intensity associated with
Sohidul Islam +5 more
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Energy Poverty and Climate Shocks: Are Changing Weather Patterns Leaving South Africa in the Dark?
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Energy and climate change are deeply interlinked, with the latter exerting significant influence on energy demand and supply. In regions such as South Africa, where socio‐economic vulnerability is high, understanding how climate change affects energy poverty is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 7 ...
WiZelle Kritzinger, Roula Inglesi‐Lotz
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Identifying the principal drivers of carbon emissions is vital for designing effective mitigation strategies and supporting long‐term environmental sustainability. Although previous studies have explored multiple determinants of emissions, limited attention has been paid to the most influential energy–technology channels within trade‐dependent
Gang Kou +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In advanced European economies facing persistent environmental pressures, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires aligning technological transformation with ecological constraints. This study examines the asymmetric effects of medium‐ and high‐technology (M&HTEC) industries on environmental sustainability in the EU‐5 ...
Abdullah Emre Caglar +2 more
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Electrification and Child Work: Direct and Spillover Effects in Ethiopia
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While electrification is often promoted for improving adults' labor supply, its effect on child work remains underexplored. Using four waves of Ethiopian panel data, we examine how electrification affects children's work time. By differentiating between households with and without own electricity access within electrified communities, we ...
Theresa Pieper, Thanh‐Tung Nguyen
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies in the context of the finance‐environment nexus mainly rely on quantitative indicators to provide information on activity or depth of the financial system, ignoring how institutional openness and the degree of regulatory autonomy within the financial market shape environmental outcomes that are directly relevant to Sustainable
Zahoor Ahmed +2 more
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Industry Structure and Green Future: The Role of Medium and High‐Tech Industries on the Environment
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between medium‐ and high‐tech industries and CO2 emissions in BRICS economies, with particular attention to short‐ and long‐run effects from the perspectives of the Porter, Decoupling, and Green Technology Diffusion hypotheses.
Abdullah Emre Caglar +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving sustainable development requires balancing economic growth with environmental conservation, but the relationship between informal economic activities and emerging financial technologies in boosting green growth (GG) is not well understood.
Muhammad Salah Uddin +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding whether the interaction between economic activity and forest ecosystems manifests as conflict or synergy is central to designing effective, sustainable development policies. Although the environmental Kuznets curve framework is frequently utilized to explain this relationship, its analytical scope remains limited, as it ...
Umut Uzar, Kemal Eyuboglu
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