Fallou DIENG

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are a growing concern for policy makers and environmental advocates. The objective of the article is to determine the role of governance in environmental decarbonization based on the environmental Kuznets curve from a panel of 21 SSA countries over the period from 1996 to 2019. The Driscoll-Kraay estimator is used to estimate the long-term relationship and the dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimator to test the robustness. The results show the non-existence of an environmental Kuznets curve and the negative influence of corruption on CO2 emissions. These results suggest strengthening the control of corruption to ensure effective environmental decarbonization policies.

Corruption, CO2 emissions, Economic growth, SSA

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