Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS 2022)

Low-Carbon-Emissions Sustainable Development in Malaysia – A Myth or a Reality?

Authors
Saranya Sree Subramaniam1, Goh Han-Hwa1, *
1Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: hhgoh@mmu.edu.my
Corresponding Author
Goh Han-Hwa
Available Online 26 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-61-9_26How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Carbon emissions; renewable energy; sustainable economic growth; foreign direct investment inflows; Malaysia
Abstract

Will the aspirations of Malaysia to become a carbon-neutral country by 2050 be a myth or a reality? This paper is therefore timely to examine both short-run dynamics and long-run relationship between carbon emissions, renewable energy consumption, economic growth and foreign direct investment inflows in Malaysia from 1990 to 2018. Our empirical results denote that there is a negative association between renewable energy consumption and carbon emissions in Malaysia in the long run. However, economic growth and foreign direct investment inflows in Malaysia are found to be significantly affecting the carbon emissions positively in the long run. Besides, there is evidence of unidirectional short-run causalities between carbon emissions and renewable energy consumption along with renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Malaysia. In short, the empirical results of this paper support Malaysia’s goal of becoming a carbon-neutral country where the use of renewable energy can significantly reduce the carbon emissions in Malaysia in the long run while promoting sustainable economic growth in the short run.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 December 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-61-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-61-9_26How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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