Rethinking the Elements
Could the Environmental Daly Curve Hypothesis Be Valid for Less Industrialized Economies?: Testing the Relationship between Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Francis Ayensu
The theory of Environmental Daly Curve (EDC) hypothesis has received little attention from researchers and academicians. Coupled with limited literature and scare empirical studies, the current study aims to fill the research gap by statistically testing the EDC hypothesis for the relationship between carbon emissions and economic growth in less industrialized nations. The research approach is deductive; the research design is explanatory; while the research method is quantitative. The target population represents 155 nations across the globe. From this number, a sample of 75 countries with high air pollution would constitute the sample size. The sample design would be a purposive sampling method since the selected countries must meet certain criteria. The source of data would be primarily secondary data. Data is gathered from World Bank through the database of World Development Indicators. The analysis method is an observation of cross sectional panel data over 31 years from 1990 to 2020. The statistical modeling methods (cross-sectional dependency test, panel unit root, panel cointegration, causality test, CCEMG, DOLS) are performed with the application of statistical softwares (Microsoft Excel, EViews, Stata).
PROJECT HALO: Fire Alarm From Space View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Gregory Sullivan
Climate change around the world has produced a large rise in wildfires. One of the largest polluters on our planet is wildfires. In 2021, wildfires around the world, if combined, were the second largest "nation" in CO2 emissions. By reducing the number of wildfires, we also reduce the subsequent pollution. Thus by reducing the number of wildfires, besides saving our planets environment and ecosystems, not to mention other physical impacts, we also greatly reduce multiple forms of pollution. PROJECT HALO offers a new tool that will see fires close to initiation and relay their location directly to the closest first responder. Thus, by putting fires out while they are small, and stopping them from turning into larger, raging wildfires, we greatly reduce the environmental and pollution impact of wildfires. This has already been demonstrated in 2013 with a joint Department of Defense and Forest Service experiment using the geostationary orbit (GEO) Commercially Hosted InfraRed Payload (CHIRP) satellite program. During a week of testing the CHIRP satellite saw 14 fires, and 13 were reported first to the Forest Service (MG Taverney, USAF, Ret). PROJECT HALO will springboard off of the CHIRP program success and provide a DEDICATED satellite to identify fires while they are very small and send their latitude and longitude to the closest first responder. We will use multiple members of the CHIRP Program. Because of our past and current experience, we see deploying PROJECT HALO as a sophomore program.
