Open AccessThe Negative Impact of Renewable Energy Consumption on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An empirical evidence from South American Countries
Author(s) -
Matheus Koengkan,
José Alberto Fuinhas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
revista brasileira de energias renováveis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2237-9711
DOI - 10.5380/rber.v6i5.49252
Subject(s) - renewable energy , carbon dioxide , energy consumption , consumption (sociology) , environmental science , greenhouse gas , natural resource economics , economics , engineering , chemistry , ecology , social science , organic chemistry , sociology , electrical engineering , biology
The impact of renewable energy consumption on the carbon dioxide emissions was analyzed for a panel of ten South American countries in a period from 1980 to 2012. The Autoregressive r to decompose the total effect of renewable energy consumption on the carbon dioxide emissions in its short- and long-run components. The results indicate that the consumption of renewable energy reduce the carbon dioxide emissions in -0.0420 % when the consumption of alternative sources increases in 1% in short-run. Keywords: Renewable energy, environmental, energy economics, econometric.
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