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Jan, 2022;29 (5): 7678-7702.

Exploring the effects of climate-related financial policies on carbon emissions in G20 countries: a panel quantile regression approach.

Paola D'Orazio, Maximilian W Dirks
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  1. Paola D'Orazio: Institute of Macroeconomics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany. paola.dorazio@ruhr-uni-bochum.de. ORCID
  2. Maximilian W Dirks: Institute of Macroeconomics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
PMID: 34476706 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-15655-y

Abstract

This paper studies the effects of financial development, economic growth, and climate-related financial policies on carbon emissions for G20 countries. The focus is particularly on financial policies implemented to scale up green finance and address climate-related financial risks from 2000 to 2017 and represent this paper's value added. The empirical results obtained by relying on the panel quantile regression approach indicate that the impacts of the different explanatory variables on carbon emission are heterogeneous. Specifically, the effect of the stock of short-term financial policies on carbon emissions is negative, and its effect becomes smaller at higher quantiles. The stock of long-term policies also shows significant negative coefficients, but its impact is stronger for higher quantiles. No significance is reported for the lowest quantile. Financial development contributes to improving environmental quality, and its impact is larger in higher emission countries. Energy consumption increases carbon emissions, with the strongest effects occurring at higher quantiles. Our results also support the validity of the EKC relationship and positive effects of GDP and population on high carbon emissions levels. Estimation results are robust to alternative model specifications and after controlling for the role played by adopting international climate change mitigation policies as proxied by the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol.

Keywords

Carbon dioxide emissions Climate risks Climate-related financial policies Financial development Green finance

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