The Impact of the Digital Economy on CO2 Emissions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have led to emission of a lot greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, sharply increasing concentration gases in atmosphere and resulting serious global warming. With rapid development computer technology, digital economy is gradually becoming engine economic growth. As new mode, how affects environment worth studying. In this paper, we introduced into Solow growth model technological progress conducted fixed-effects regressions based on panel data 190 countries from 2005 2016. We found an inverted U-shaped, non-linear relationship between CO2 emissions economy, which supports environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. suggest that governments need not only adopt hedging policies reduce caused by early stage but also promote achieve goal collaborative protection.