Relationship between energy, GDP and trade openness with environmental degradation in Malaysia / Nur Shahfini Hamzah

• Main Author: Hamzah, Nur Shahfini
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics). Capital. Capital productivity; Environmental policy and economic development. Sustainable development. Environmental management; Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product; Technological innovations. Technology transfer
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/41117/1/41117.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/41117/

This thesis paper aims to explore the relationship of energy, GDP and trade openness to the environmental degradation in the case of Malaysia. CO2 are represent the environmental degradation.We use time series analysis with time period from 1970-2014. This study utilize ADF and PP unit root test and ordinary least square method in order to explore the relationship between environmental degradation and selected economic variables. It was found that only energy has negative relationship with CO2, while GDP and trade openness are found to have positive relationship with CO2. This study conclude that government should develop program that create awareness to public especially to industries regarding environmental pollution and encourage them to use green technologies to control the release of CO2.