Technology policy and environmental quality at crossroads: Designing SDG policies for select Asia Pacific countries

•Selected Asia Pacific countries are analyzed for 1990–2017.•Impact of technology policies on environmental quality is analyzed.•Inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve is found.•Turnaround points rise with quantiles.•Comprehensive SDG framework has been suggested. Since the inception of Susta...

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Published in:Technological forecasting & social change Vol. 161; p. 120317
Main Authors: Sinha, Avik, Sengupta, Tuhin, Saha, Tanaya
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.12.2020
Elsevier B.V
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:
Analysis
Asia Pacific
Causality
Clean energy
Economic development
Economic growth
Environmental degradation
Environmental impact
Environmental Kuznets curve
Environmental policy
Environmental quality
India
Kuznets curve
Management science
Quality of education
Quantiles
Research and development
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development Goals
Technology and state
Technology policy
India
Asia
Environmental quality
Asia Pacific
Sustainable Development Goals
Technology policy
Research and development
ISSN:0040-1625, 1873-5509
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Summary:•Selected Asia Pacific countries are analyzed for 1990–2017.•Impact of technology policies on environmental quality is analyzed.•Inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve is found.•Turnaround points rise with quantiles.•Comprehensive SDG framework has been suggested. Since the inception of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Asia Pacific countries are facing difficulties in attaining the SDG objectives, as maintaining the environmental quality has been a challenge for them. In this study, we have revisited the technology policies of these countries, and in doing so, we have tried to address the problem of environmental degradation, while addressing the issues of sustainable economic growth, clean and affordable energy, and quality education. In this pursuit, we have designed two indices for environmental degradation and technological advancement, and then analyzed the association between them following the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Following IPAT framework, and by using quantile approach, over a period of 1990–2017, we have found that the turnaround points of EKCs rise with the rise in quantiles, i.e. quantiles with low pollutions are having turnaround points within sample range, whereas quantiles with high pollutions are having turnaround points outside sample range. Using Rolling Window Heterogeneous Panel Causality test, unidirectional causality has been found running from technological advancement to environmental degradation. Following the results obtained from the analysis, we have tried to address the objectives of SDG 13, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 9, SDG 7, and SDG 10. [Display omitted]
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ISSN:0040-1625
1873-5509
DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120317