Abstract
The study attempts to examine various factors responsible for
environmental degradation in Pakistan. Contributing towards
economic growth, these factors added pollutants as a byproduct
to the environment. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rate is one of
such pollutants and has been used as a dependent variable in the
study. Numerous factors are responsible for environmental
damage, but the study includes the major ones. These
determinants are economic growth, population, energy
consumption and industrialization, and time-series data of these
variables from 1972 to 2018 are utilized for empirical analysis
in the study. Long run relationship is computed using Auto
Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL). Findings of the study
revealed that three factors; population, energy consumption and
industrialization are positively and significantly contributed to
environmental degradation in Pakistan. While, economic growth
is negatively contributing towards environmental degradation.
The paper concluded with a finding that population growth needs
to be controlled. Besides this, clean and green energy should be
promoted. Lastly, EPAs must be strengthened for their effective
role
Haseeeb Ur Rehman, Sikandar Zeb. (2020) Determinants of Environmental Degradation in Economy of Pakistan, Empirical Economic Review, Volume 3, Issue 1.
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