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The Negative Impact of Renewable Energy Consumption on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An empirical evidence from South American Countries

2017; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ; Volume: 6; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5380/rber.v6i5.49252

2237-9711

Matheus Koengkan, José Alberto Fuinhas,

Energy and Environment Impacts

The impact of renewable energy consumption on the carbon dioxide emissions was analyzed for a panel of ten South American countries in a period from 1980 to 2012. The Autoregressive r to decompose the total effect of renewable energy consumption on the carbon dioxide emissions in its short- and long-run components. The results indicate that the consumption of renewable energy reduce the carbon dioxide emissions in -0.0420 % when the consumption of alternative sources increases in 1% in short-run. Keywords: Renewable energy, environmental, energy economics, econometric.