This Special Issue of\u00a0Energies\u00a0aims to reflect on the current role that energy transition is playing on the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation, mainly through the empirical evidence of the EKC. Without abandoning this fundamental objective, this Special Issue also considers among its goals to share advances in the study of the impact that energy efficiency processes exercise not only on economic systems but also to deepen the social, environmental, and sustainability impact. Finally, the present Special Issue also intends to gather new empirical approaches to the link between foreign direct investment and environmental degradation, taking into consideration the role that natural resources and energy play on this connection. Therefore, it is intended to collect contributions aimed at validating the pollution shelter hypothesis, sustained in a new energy context. On the other hand, the current economic and energy context at the global level requires the analysis of the opening of trade, tourism, and globalization as fundamental drivers not only of economic growth but also of the processes of energy transition and environmental correction. As such, this Special Issue also aims to advance the role that energy innovation processes exercise on economic systems and how technical obsolescence can be harmful to ecological correction procedures.\u00a0Consequently, this Special Issue aims to capture further developments in the impact of economic growth and energy use on environmental degradation, considering as key variables the role that foreign direct investment, urbanization, tourism or energy innovation play on environmental degradation and social development, all under the umbrella of new econometric techniques of database analysis.
\nKeywords: Energy economics; Economic growth; Tourism-led growth hypothesis; Pollution haven hypothesis; Environmental Kuznets curve; Renewable energy; Energy RD&D; Carbon emissions; Ecological footprint; Trade openness; Air transport; Urbanization; FDI; Sustainable growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","topic":[718,576,597,88,74,449,643,622,648,453,459,534,541,504,240,683],"country":[55],"nsj_language":[57],"class_list":["post-1708","call_for_papers","type-call_for_papers","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-clean-energy","topic-data-management","topic-data-sensing-and-analysis","topic-development-economics","topic-economics","topic-energy-efficiency","topic-environmental-assessment","topic-environmental-impact","topic-environmental-pollution","topic-environmental-sustainability","topic-green-mobility","topic-mobility","topic-renewable-resources","topic-sustainability","topic-sustainable-energy","topic-transports","country-switzerland","nsj_language-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n