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Achieving the seventh Sustainable Development Goal which is clean energy at affordable prices depending on technological innovation is one of the most strategic objectives of Egypt, aiming at mitigating carbon dioxide emissions and enhancing sustainable economic growth (IRENA 2018b). Based upon this goal, the study explores the relationships among carbon dioxide emissions, technological innovation, alternative energy resources, economic growth, and financial development in Egypt over the period 1971–2014. Auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL), fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS), Stock and Watson dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), and Toda-Yamamoto approaches are employed. The results show the existence of cointegration among the variables. Moreover, empirical results show that while technological innovation and alternative energy resources improve environmental quality, financial development and economic growth deteriorate it. The findings obtained from Toda-Yamamoto approach reveal the existence of bi-directional causal relation between environmental degradation and economic growth. Also, environmental degradation causes technological innovation and financial development causes environmental degradation and economic growth. Thus, several policy implications should be suggested to policymakers as enhancing the development of technological innovation especially in renewable energy sector to improve environmental quality.
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Ibrahiem, D.M. Do technological innovations and financial development improve environmental quality in Egypt?. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 10869–10881 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-07585-7
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