Evidencias sobre curva ambiental de kuznets e convergencia das emissoes

Abstract

Recently many researchers started to study the relationship between economic growth and pollution. Two distinct approaches followed from these studies: the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and the convergence of emissions. In this context, Brock and Taylor (2010) built a model that makes a bridge between both methodologies, as convergence of emissions implies the EKC. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the EKC (in a traditional way) and the model proposed by Brock and Taylor (2010) in order to verify if the results reinforce each other. The estimates of the curve were sensitive to the model chosen. The estimates of the model pointed to evidence of conditional convergence of per capita emissions and of the EKC.