أثر استهلاك الطاقات غير المتجددة على التلوث البيئي : دراسة حالة السعودية خلال الفترة 1971-2014 باستخدام منهجية الانحدار الذاتي للفجوات الزمنية الموزعة

الملخص EN

This study investigated the effect of non-renewable energy consumption on environmental degradation in the case of Saudi Arabia.

We used oil energy use as a proxy for non-renewable energy and carbon dioxide emissions as a proxy for environmental degradation.

Applying autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach on the data spanning from 1971 to 2014, the long run relationship among the selected variables is confirmed, and the results indicated that the nonrenewable energy increase environmental degradation in the short run as well as in the long run.

However, the long run impact is smaller than the short run impact.

Furthermore, the findings confirmed the environment Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis.

Moreover, the results also showed that reducing oil production level leads to improve environmental quality