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Economic Growth and Carbon Emission Nexus: the Function of Tourism in Brazil

by Asif Raihan a,* orcid
a
Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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JES  2023 1(2):12; https://doi.org/10.58567/jes01020005
Received: 17 April 2023 / Accepted: 26 July 2023 / Published Online: 16 August 2023
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The impact of international tourism on emerging markets has been overwhelmingly beneficial. Despite the obvious benefits of tourism, it comes at a high price for the environment in the form of pollution. Brazil's annual tourist influx has the potential to boost economic development and damage the country's ecosystems. The objective of this investigation is to analyze, using time series data ranging from 1990 to 2019, the effects of tourism and economic growth (GDP) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Brazil. The stationarity of the data was examined by employing unit root tests, and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique was used to investigate the link between the factors, taking both the long- and the short-run into consideration. This research shows that there are long-term and short-term ties between Brazil's tourism industry, GDP, and CO2 emissions. Yet, both tourism and economic expansion have had serious negative effects on Brazil's ecology. These results indicate that in order to maintain environmental quality in Brazil, policymakers need to pursue more eco-friendly economic expansion as well as environmentally conscious tourist regulations.

Keywords: Tourism; Economic growth; CO2 emissions; Environmental degradation; Sustainable development; Brazil;
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