Crecimiento y medio ambiente: ¿son los países con ingresos altos ambientalmente sostenibles?

Abstract

Abstract: Environmental degradation caused by carbon emissions is a global problem, especially that caused by higher-income economies, which led to questioning environmental sustainability and the path to development that they chart for the lowest-income economies. The present research delved into an analysis of three different groups of countries, differentiated by the level of their income (high, medium and low), and, through an econometric model with panel data in the period 1980-2014, the environmental sustainability of the highest-income countries was not demonstrated, supported under the Kuznets environmental curve hypothesis. However, thus, it was argued that, in the long run, the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions is reversed at a tipping point that reduce polluting emissions, while the economy grows. However, this process was questioned, as, despite demonstrating the Kuznets hypothesis, high-income economies arrived and still have very high levels of carbon emissions.