Abstract
A safe and healthy environment is a basic right of all living bodies but incurrent era pollution is at peak. The present study applied bound test basedco-integrating technique using annual time series data from 1970-2014 forexploring major determinants of Environmental degradation. Presentstudy included four determinants were energy consumption, grossdomestic products, FDI and population growth. Finding of the presentobserved a significant relationship among energy consumption, GDP,population growth and environmental degradation in short run and longrun.However, foreign direct investment has a positive and significantassociation with environmental degradation at 10% level of significanceboth in short and long-run. The econometric findings suggest thatPakistan has to sacrifice use of energy consumption, to have a safe andhealthy environment for better livings; Pakistan should adopt other way ofenergy like solar energy .While foreign direct investment must be used forpollution free machine or pollution free projects so that we can have cleanPakistan. Government of Pakistan should care about green policy andshould spread awareness in public so that population growth should not bea problem of environmental degradation. This research study made aunique participation in emergent body of empirical studies on practices ofenvironmental awareness in Pakistan by using bounds test based cointegrationtechnique.
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