Title: Impact of population and economic growth on carbon emissions of developed and developing countries

Authors: Varun Chotia; Prabhat Pankaj

Addresses: Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur Campus, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ' Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur Campus, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract: Climate change has become the biggest impending source of doom for mankind. It is a common consensus that carbon emissions are one of the main reasons for this catastrophe. The aim of this research is to study the impact of population and economic growth on carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. A data set of nine countries, three each from developed (Japan, USA, UK), fast developing (India, China and Brazil) and slow developing categories (Congo, Bangladesh and Malaysia), over 30 years has been considered for this study. For the purpose of analysis, a stochastic model containing CO₂ emissions as the dependent variable, and population, affluence which is measured by the GDP per capita and technology which is measured by resources used per unit production as independent variables. We find that population growth and economic growth have been a prime contributor to CO₂ emissions globally in the last two decades.

Keywords: emissions; population; affluence; technology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2019.104511

International Journal of Green Economics, 2019 Vol.13 No.3/4, pp.276 - 287

Received: 28 Feb 2019
Accepted: 19 Nov 2019
Published online: 16 Jan 2020 *

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