Analyzing the nexus between environmental sustainability and clean energy for the USA

Environmental sustainability is a key target to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, achieving these targets needs tools to pave the way for achieving SDGs and COP28 targets. Therefore, the primary objective of the present study is to examine the significance of clean energy, research and development spending, technological innovation, income, and human capital in achieving environmental sustainability in the USA from 1990 to 2022. The study employed time series econometric methods to estimate the empirical results. The study confirmed the long-run cointegrating relationship among CO2 emissions, human capital, income, R&D, technological innovation, and clean energy. The results are statistically significant in the short run except for R&D expenditures. In the long run, the study found that income and human capital contribute to further aggravating the environment via increasing CO2 emissions. However, R&D expenditures, technological innovation, and clean energy help to promote environmental sustainability by limiting carbon emissions. The study recommends investment in technological innovation, clean energy, and increasing R&D expenditures to achieve environmental sustainability in the USA.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Environmental science and pollution research international

• Publication date

  2024-03-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s11356-024-32765-5PMID 38517628PMCID 11058933
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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