Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2113334
The role of human capital and environmental protection on the sustainable development goals: new evidences from Chinese economy
Mingqi Zhu
Abstract
Currently, the achievement of sustainable development goals
(SDG) is the requirement of the entire globe and needs the attention
of recent researchers and regulators. Thus, the current research
also investigates the impact of human capital and environmental
protection on the SDG of the developed economy like China. The
researchers have explored the secondary data sources and collected
the data from 1986 to 2019, and used the world development
indicators (WDI) for this purpose. The current article also
used the augmented dickey-fuller test (ADF) to check the stationarity
and autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) to test the
nexus among variables. The results indicated that all the predictors
such as human capital index (human capital), renewable energy
consumption and renewable energy production (environmental
protection) have a negative association with carbon emission and
a positive association with SDG. The outcomes also indicated that
control variables such as economic growth and population growth
have a positive association with carbon emission. These outcomes
provide the guidelines to the regulators while developing policies
related to sustainable development goals.
Keywords
Human capital; environmental protection; sustainable development goals; renewable energy production; renewable energy consumption; economic growth
Hrčak ID:
303748
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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