The role of services in the environmental Kuznets curve

• Manuel Cantavella ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Jaume I

     Universitat Jaume I

     Castellón, España

     
• Localización: Economics and Business Letters, ISSN-e 2254-4380, Vol. 9, Nº. Extra 4, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Selected papers from CIO 2019 / 13th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management), págs. 326-333
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper examines the influence of the service sector in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model regarding carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The analysis is applied for Spain during the period 1940-2014. It compares the standard environmental Kuznets curve model and its modification by isolating the evolution of the impact of services. The results through the autoregressive distributed-lag (ARDL) estimation strategy confirm that even though all economic activities tend to be more and more sustainable, it is the development of service sector that becomes fundamental in the reduction of per capita CO2emissions.