How does clean fuels and technologies-based energy poverty affect carbon emissions? New evidence from eighteen developing countries

Abstract The relationship between all types of poverty and other socioeconomic indicators has been studied extensively; nevertheless, clean fuels and technologies-based energy poverty, which is adjusted for carbon emissions, have not been studied. The current study empirically examines the effect of clean fuels and technologies-based energy poverty on carbon emissions (Co2e) using panel data of eighteen developing countries from Asia for the period of 2006–2017. By using the System-Generalized Method of Movement (SGMM) estimators, the empirical findings suggest the presence of clean fuels and technologies-based energy poverty and its curse on environment, i.e., energy-poverty positively affect Co2e growth in Asian developing countries. Furthermore, economic growth (GDP), trade, and population are also positively associated with Co2e growth and have detrimental effect the environmental degradation. Based on the empirical findings of current study, we recommend robust policy implications that the governments of targeted countries should invest more to increase clean fuels and technologies.