Assessing Electricity-Driven Emissions: A Sectoral Dual Model Approach

Abstract

One of the major issues of environment is of hazardous gas emissions. The current study focuses on the emissions of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions, which is released by three consumption sectors that are household, commercial and industrial. The time period for the study has been chosen to be 1972-2022. Stationary test was conducted to infer the appropriate methodology for the model. All the variables were found to be stationary at first difference except for electricity consumption household which is found stationary at level. Thus, the appropriate model for carbon dioxide emissions would be Autoregressive distributive Lag model (ARDL). While when the bounds test for the model of other greenhouse gasses was conducted no co-integration was found therefore, only short run results were reported. For the case of carbon dioxide emissions electricity consumption household and electricity consumption commercial are significant in long run.