Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298243 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/23/056
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The pace of urbanisation, the intensity of energy consumption, and the quality of environmental regulation level pose a severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental pollution through urbanisation and energy consumption channel in 33 African nations between 1996 and 2020. Our study considers crosssectional dependence in Africa; as a result, we employ the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) method and Common Correlated Effect Mean Group (CCEMG) for a robustness check to analyse the panel series. The study finds that (i) urbanisation increases environmental pollution, (ii) energy consumption accelerates environmental degradation, (iii) regulatory quality can partially mediate pollution in Africa via urbanisation and energy consumption channels, and (iv) The interaction of regulatory quality with urbanisation and energy consumption, respectively reduce environmental pollution establishing a moderation effect. The study suggests that African countries tighten environmental regulatory policies to lessen carbon emissions and drive environmental sustainability towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
Subjects: 
Heterogeneous
Urbanisation
Energy consumption
Environmental pollution
Regulation
Africa
JEL: 
C20
R00
Q40
Q52
L52
N57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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