Effects of Fossil Fuel Usage in Electricity Production on CO2 Emissions: A STIRPAT Model Application on 20 Selected Countries

This article examines the causes of air pollution while paying particular attention to effects fossil fuel use in electricity generation. Dietz and Roza's (1994) STIRPAT model, which is a reformulated version IPAT was used. The data includes 20 countries with highest CO2 emission levels covers years 1991 2015. According empirical results this article, increases population GDP per capita are followed by proportional increase emissions. Moreover, show that share coal generation has negative impact on emissions selected countries. On other hand, gas does not have significant period.