The G20, a grouping of the largest developed and developing economies in the world, accounts for almost 86% of global Gross Domestic Product and 76% of global CO2 emissions. In recent years, the G20 global summit has not only aimed to support an economic agenda, but also to coordinate actions towards a cleaner energy and low-carbon future. However, in different countries driving forces for the ...

The G20, a grouping of the largest developed and developing economies in the world, accounts for 7 almost 86% of global Gross Domestic Product and 76% of global CO2 emissions. In recent years, the G20 global 8 summit has not only aimed to support an economic agenda, but also to coordinate actions towards a cleaner energy 9 and low-carbon future. However, in different countries driving forces fo...

Neoliberalism, or faith in the capacity of markets to solve social and economic problems, is a key element of the prevailing public policy orthodoxy in G20 countries. Throughout the 1980s, key proponents of the Neoliberal message such as UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and American President Ronald Regan spoke optimistically about the philosophy’s inevitability and its benefits. During that...

The concept of blue marble health emerged as a novel framework for global health in 2013 [1, 2]. Succinctly put, today most or at least one-half of the world’s neglected diseases occur among the poor living in wealthy countries, especially in the group of 20 (G20) nations and Nigeria [1–4]. Based on data mostly compiled and released by theWHO (and other published sources), approximately one-hal...

Innovation and entrepreneurship are considered key factors of growth and survival of modern economies. According to Schumpeter (1934), “carrying out innovations is the only function which is fundamental in history". The review of recent studies reveals that high levels of newly growing up innovative firms are strongly related to economic growth (Stam, 2008).The vinculum of innovation, entrepren...

Planning for electricity generation systems is a very important task and should take environmental and economic factors into account. This paper reviews the existing metrics and methods in evaluating energy sustainability, and we propose a sustainability assessment index system. The input indexes include generation capacity, generation cost, and land use. The output indexes include desirable an...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the short and long-run relationships between renewable, non-renewable energy consumption (NREC) economic growth. This study highlights importance renewable improve total factor productivity (TFP) in G20 countries spanning on 2002-2018. Using approach panel Feasible Generalized Least Squares (PFGLS) cross-section period weight FGLS sur robust, we have ...