Abstract：Using the autoregressive distributes lag bounds testing approach, this study analyzes the long-run and short-run relationships among per capita CO2 emissions, GDP, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and foreign trade for China covering the period 1980-2012, and explores the effect of renewable energy consumption.The results show that there is a long-run relationship among those variables.Besides, China does not have the EKC of carbon emissions without considering the influence of renewable energy consumption.Also, there is a positive correlation between foreign trade and carbon emissions.However, when the variable like renewable energy consumption is added in our model, it finds that the inverted U-shaped EKC hypothesis is supported graphically and analytically in the long-run.Lastly, note that renewable energy consumption has a significant negative impact on carbon emissions in the long-run and has a slightly negative impact on carbon emissions in the short-run.
Keyword：carbon emissions; renewable energy consumption; foreign Trade; ARDL model;
【source】Soft Science2017年09期
