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Green transportation taxes and environmental sustainability: China experience

by NAILA NUREEN a,* orcid ,  Muhammad Sibt e Ali b  and  Muhammad Sharjeel c
a
School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
b
Business School, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
c
School of business administration, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
*
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ETE  2024 2(2):15; https://doi.org/10.58567/ete02020005
Received: 28 December 2023 / Accepted: 6 April 2024 / Published Online: 17 June 2024
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Environmental degradation is becoming a fundamental issue as it is directly associated with human lives and environmental sustainability. This research particularly highlights the significance of green transportation taxes in achieving environmental sustainability due to limited available literature considering the environmental sustainability and green transportation taxes nexus. By employing the newly developed QARDL approach, this study is unfolding the linkages of green transportation taxes on transport-based CO2 emissions for Chinese economy spanning 1992 to 2020. The results infer that green transportation taxes to enhance environmental sustainability in the long-run for the highest quantiles, i.e., 0.70 to 0.95. Though, green transportation taxes enhance environmental sustainability in all quantiles in the short-run. Based on these results, the study suggests that the Chinese government and policymakers should increase green transportation taxes that help in combating CO2 emissions, which ultimately enhances environmental sustainability.

Keywords: Green transportation taxes; Environmental sustainability; China;
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