Abstract
To comprehensively assess global sustainable energy consumption from the perspectives of economic development and environmental conservation, we propose a multidimensional structure that includes two-dimensional and three-dimensional networks. Based on the proposed methods, we empirically investigate 35 countries of the International Energy Agency. It is found that: 1) Regarding economic income, Asia ranks first, followed by America, Oceania, Europe and Africa. 2) As for sustainable development, the best-performing region is Asia, followed by Africa and Europe, Oceania and America. 3) The regions with greater development potential in energy consumption are America, Oceania, Africa and Europe, while Asia is less efficient. In consideration of the above findings, we give some recommendations for different regions to improve their energy consumption efficiency, such as countries in Asia can focus on innovative high-tech industries while countries in Europe can enhance economic vitality with market integration.
Highlights
A rise in concern levels about pollutions can be seen with the development of the global economy
This paper proposes a multidimensional structure that includes the two-dimensional and three-dimensional networks, where the two-dimensional network is primarily used to analyze the performance in terms of economic income, while the three-dimensional network plays a major role in evaluating the efficiency of sustainable development
With the aims of comprehensively evaluating the world energy consumption and providing practical suggestions for the countries being evaluated which improves their efficiency of energy consumption, we conduct an empirical investigation for 35 countries in the International Energy Agency
Summary
A rise in concern levels about pollutions can be seen with the development of the global economy. In terms of energy-environmenteconomy, Wang and Feng [36] utilized a global data envelopment analysis method to assess the efficiency performance of energy, environment, economy (E3) and productivity in China and explored the key factors responsible for the change in E3 productivity. It can be found that research on energy consumption mainly focuses on efficiency assessment of single or combined factors about energy, environment and economy It focuses on taking the final output value as one of the measurement criteria. We make the practical contribution of conducting empirical research to investigate the performance of energy consumption in 35 major countries from the International Energy Agency based on the new multidimensional structure model. Some suggestions based on our findings are provided
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