Abstract
Increased economic growth and transportation have led to a great increase in carbon emission in Malaysia. This paper investigates the factors such as distance travel (DT), fuel efficiency (FE), fuel price (FP) and fuel consumption as determinants of carbon emission from road transportation in Malaysia for the period 1990 to 2019. The results indicate that DT, FP, and FE are the main determinants of carbon emission. The study concludes that to reduce carbon emission in Malaysia, policies causing structural adjustments in the road transport sector of Malaysia must be implemented.Keywords: Carbon dioxide gas emissions, energy consumption, road transportation, Economic growthJEL Classification: Q19DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.10957
Highlights
In prior decades emission of carbon dioxide gas increase appeared as a challenging problem in environment caused by negative climate influence
Transportation sector covers a specific percentage of emission out of worldwide emission that is reported as 23% and equivalent to 7.2 billion tons and in future the carbon emission aimed for considerable growth in economy
This study aimed to investigate the inter-link and effects among determinants of carbon dioxide gas emission in the road transport sector in Malaysia
Summary
In prior decades emission of carbon dioxide gas increase appeared as a challenging problem in environment caused by negative climate influence. Rapid economic growth causes an increase in demand of energy consumption and increase emission of carbon dioxide gas as well. Higher the number of vehicles on road higher the concentration of emission of carbon dioxide gas will be. The numbers of vehicles are about one billion rising the consumption of petroleum and fuels equivalent to 13.1 billion barrels on annual base and polluting annually for about 5.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide gas emission (Xu and Lin 2015). Carbon emission will produced by transportation sector of about 50% and more than 80% in 2030 and 2050 respectively with increasing demand of energy and number of vehicles causes for more emission of carbon dioxide gas in country (Morán and del Rio Gonzalez 2007; Sheereen, 2019)
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