Arshad Ali

Nov 20, 2024 | nature.com | Arshad Ali |Magdalena Radulescu |Abdelmohsen A. Nassani |Guo Xiangyu

China and the United States have the highest demand for fossil fuel energy for transportation and power generation, which promotes growth while also damaging the environment. Policymakers, and environmental scientists, are increasingly interested in understanding key strategies to improve energy efficiency to mitigate fossil fuel energy demand and sustain the environment and growth. In this context, this study uses augmented mean groups (AMG) and common correlated effects mean group (CCEMG) estimators to reveal the impact of China-US technological innovation, transportation infrastructure, and power generation on fossil fuel energy demand and fossil fuel energy intensity from 1995 to 2020. Besides, the study examines whether fossil fuel energy use and fossil fuel energy intensity are the main drivers of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and economic growth. The analysis results show that technological innovation has a strong adverse influence on fossil fuel energy use, and fossil fuel energy intensity. Electricity generation, road transport infrastructure investment and aviation infrastructure investment have considerably contributed to fossil fuel energy use, and fossil fuel energy intensity. The construction of rail transit infrastructure has significantly alleviated fossil fuel energy demand, and fossil fuel energy intensity. Fossil fuel energy use and fossil fuel energy intensity significantly contribute to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth. However, technological innovation and renewable energy use can substantially reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, while making a considerable contribution to economic growth. Based on empirical investigation, this study provides a series of useful insights into the sustainable development goals of the Chinese and American economies.

Nov 19, 2024 | nature.com | Saif Rahman |Arshad Ali |Muhammad Shoaib Ali |Hamayun Khan |Yanzi Liang |Amira Shafaqat

To combat climate change, a country needs to take part in the development of energy sources and the renovation of its energy infrastructure. Since, green energy production is frequently costly and dangerous, especially in its early stages, capital is one of the barriers to the energy revolution. The aims of the study to analyze the non-linear relationship between energy consumption, financial development, and technology innovation on green economic growth, and environmental pollution indicators including ecological footprint and carbon dioxide emission in the E-7 countries over the period of 1995 to 2022. Using a new panel non-linear autoregressive distribution model (NLPARDL) approach, the results confirm that carbon dioxide emissions, green economic growth, and ecological footprint have a positive and strong long-term correlation with the positive component of the energy use. Conversely, negative shocks are negative and significant with ecological footprint but positive and significant with carbon dioxide emissions and green economic growth. Furthermore, financial development has a positive and substantial relationship with ecological footprint in addition to having a long-term negative and large impact on carbon dioxide emissions and a negative but small impact on green economic growth in a positive shock. Similar to this, financial development negative shock coefficients are significant and negative over the long term when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions and green economic growth, and they are positively significant when it comes to ecological footprint negative component. In the meantime, the long-term positive shock of technology innovation has a negative significant correlation with ecological footprint, ecological footprint a positive and negligible correlation with green economic growth, and a positive and significant correlation with carbon dioxide emission. Similarly, technology innovation long-term negative shock coefficients for carbon dioxide emissions and green economic growth are both negative and significant; on the other hand, technology innovations long-term negative shock coefficients for the negative component of ecological footprint are positively significant. Based on the results, E-7 nations need to invest in projects that utilize energy and technology innovation to reduce environmental degradation and boost green economic growth, such as investing in energy projects and reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. The findings also suggest that to achieve the sustainable growth and environment, E7 countries must enhance the environment related technology innovations.

Sep 19, 2024 | medium.com | Arshad Ali

“I thought I was important.” Yeah, I actually believed that. And come on, you’ve been there too, right? At some point, we all think we’re the main character of the universe. Like, everything around us just exists to make our lives more interesting. But then life comes along, slaps you on the back of the head, and says, “Hey, wake up.”And suddenly, you’re not so sure anymore. When did that happen to me? Was it high school, my first job, that breakup I never really got over? Who knows.

Sep 18, 2024 | long.sweet.pub | Arshad Ali

The struggle of putting on a mask to avoid burdening others. I remember the day I lost my front teeth like it was yesterday. I was in Peshawar, picking up books for school. It should’ve been a normal day — grab the books, maybe a quick chai on the way back — but life had other plans. One second, I was crossing the street; the next, I was lying on the ground with six shattered teeth and a pain in my gut that no dentist could fix. Nobody saw the pain I hid after that.

Apr 3, 2024 | medium.com | Arshad Ali

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