Abstract: The purpose of this study is to see if renewable energies contribute to environmental pollution and beyond to know if this relationship is linear. To this end, the study focused on two West African economies with similar characteristics during the period 1980-2018. To do so, the Nonlinear Autoregressive Staggered Lag Model (NARDL) developed by Shin et al., 2014 allowed us to reach two major results. First, positive and negative changes in renewable energy do not have the same absolute effects on the environment. Second, any one percentage point increase in renewable energy consumption leads to a reduction in C02 production of about 0.02 percentage points for Côte d'Ivoire and 0.05.....
KEYWORDS: Renewable energy; Environment; NARDL; West Africa
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