BIOMASS ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE RELEVANCE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL – 7 IN NIGERIA

In many developing and emerging economies of the world, renewable non-renewable energy use has been a contentious issue in maintaining sustainable economy. Renewable is popular because increased oil demand cost, dependence on external sources emissions leading to environmental destruction. Particularly Nigeria, due poor electricity supply inadequate access clean energy; houses firms have subjected fossil fuels which results carbon productivity distortion. light this, need for as identified by United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - 7, describes affordable, dependable all. Therefore, this study investigates relationship between Nigeria's consumption biomass economic growth sustainability. The data used covers sample period 1981 2017 annual time series dataset these variables: GDP rate, labour force, gross fixed capital formation, international crude price, sourced from World Bank Indicators. Using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Granger Causality, identifies quantitative significance contributing sustainability Nigeria. implication findings highlight that Nigeria grow sustain its economy, there invest more economy.Keywords: Energy; Economy; BiomassJEL Classifications: Q40; Q01; Q42DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.10565