The nexus of electricity consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in the BRICS countries

Energy Policy

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 359-368

  Cowan, Wendy N ^a   Chang, Tsangyao ^b   Inglesi Lotz, Roula ^a   Gupta, Rangan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BRICS countries; CO2 emissions; Dependency and heterogeneity; Economic growth; Electricity consumption; Panel causality test

Indexed keywords

BRICS COUNTRIES; DEPENDENCY AND HETEROGENEITY; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; PANEL CAUSALITY;

ECONOMICS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT;

BRAZIL; CHINA; INDIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84892488238     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.081     Document Type: Article

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