دور الاقتصاد الرقمي في تحقيق الاستدامة البيئية في الوطن العربي في الفترة من 2005 إلى 2019 باستخدام مؤشر CO2

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The research aims to determine the role of the digital economy in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as an approximate measure for achieving sustainable development in some Arab countries, as well as identifying the difficulties that some Arab countries face in implementing or spreading the digital economy in these countries.

this paper used panel data for 13 Arab countries for the time period 2005 to 2019 to perform a fixed effects regression.

the basic regression results showed that the squaring of the digital economy is statistically negative and significant at the 1% level, which indicates an inverted u-shaped relationship between CO2 emissions and the digital economy (inversion point ln digital = 22.18 which is equivalent to $4291919905 million representing digital services exports).

for a sample of Arab countries, 13 countries.

we conclude from previous studies that among the most important difficulties facing some Arab countries, especially Egypt, are the high costs of the digitization process from the use of mobile phones, the high costs of using the internet, the instability and stability of the internet service for long periods and its lack of access to many areas of the countryside, especially in the poorest villages, despite among the government’s efforts in this field, the culture of using digitization has not spread in many areas due to the feeling of many individuals insecure, especially in financial operations.

according to the results of this study, we suggest some of the following recommendations.

first: at the beginning of digitization, the development of the digital economy will lead to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

therefore, governments need to adopt precautionary policies to mitigate the negative effects of the digital economy in order to prevent industrial carbon dioxide emissions, and to use green hydrogen in industrial processes extensively.

second: when the development of the digital economy reaches a certain level, carbon dioxide emissions can be effectively mitigated.

therefore, all countries must commit to developing the digital economy and activate its role to shorten the time of pollution it causes in the early stage and make better use of it to achieve the goal of protecting the global environment cooperatively.

third: raising the efficiency of the internet and its connection to all regions of Egypt, activating, and securing digital services in Egypt, especially money transfer services to and from banks and individuals, and performing government services in a digital form, not reserving a role, as happens in real estate services, for example.