Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emmision in Asia: Effect of Population, Affluence and Energy Effeciency

Deluna, Roperto Jr (2008): Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emmision in Asia: Effect of Population, Affluence and Energy Effeciency. Published in: Southern Philippines Research and Development Journal

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the effects of population, affluence and energy efficiency (the ratio of real GDP to commercial energy use) on the level of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Asia from 1980 to 2004. It also sought to provide empirical evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in Asia. Results of the study showed that the level of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions increased by 265.20 percent from 1980 to 2004. CO2 emissions rose with increases in population and GDP per capita, and decreased with increasing energy efficiency. Results showed that 97 percent of the variation in the level of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission could be explained by changes in population, GDP per capita and energy efficiency. Results also confirmed the existence of EKC in Asia, A monotonically upward trend in emissions with increasing income level was observed.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emissions; Energy Efficiency; Environmental Kuznets Curve
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C13 - Estimation: General; N - Economic History > N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries > N55 - Asia including Middle East; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C01 - Econometrics; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology > B41 - Economic Methodology

References

Dietz, Thomas and Eugene A. Rosa. 1994. “Rethinking the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence, and Technology.” Human Ecology Review. Summer/Autumn. [online; cited March 2008] Available from URL: http://www.dieoff.com/page111.htm

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2000). Special Report on Emission Scenarios. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Marland, G., Boden. T.A. and Andres, R.J. (2003), “Global, Regional, and National Fossil Fuel CO Emissions”, Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change, Carbon2 Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A

Mckitrick, R and Strazicich, M (2005). “Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios” Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1

Siddiqi, Toufiq, (2008). “ The evolving role of Asia in global climate change” [online; cited July 2008] Available from URL: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news- center/east-west-wire/the-evolving-role-of-asia-in-global-climate-change/

United Nations Population Information Bureau (2002). [online; cited March 2008] Available from URL: http://www.un.org/popin/.

United Nations Sixty-second General Assembly (2007) [online; cited July 2008] Available from URL: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/gaef3199.doc.htm

US Department of Energy’s carbon Information Analysis Center for the United Nations Statistic Division.

World Bank. Statistical Information and Management Analysis (SIMA) Database. Washington DC: The World Bank.