English Abstract
ABSTRACT :
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, have experienced significant economic growth in recent years. However, this growth has also increased greenhouse gas emissions and other adverse environmental impacts.
The study aims to investigate the causality relationship between economic growth and climate change in
these countries to understand this issue.
The research applied quantitative methodology, and Several econometrics tests were employed, including the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for the period (2001-2020).
These methods were used to examine the impact between Carbon Dioxide Emission as the climatic indicator and GDP and various related variables, such as Import, Export, Population, Energy generation, and Electricity Consumption.
The main finding of this present study is that the GCC countries indicate that the inverted U shape of the Climate-change GDP nexus and GDP positively impacts CO2 emission for the panel according to the fixed effect model.
This implies that when GDP is increased, there is a consequential increase in carbon emissions in the panel of countries, and this is attributed to the increase in the level of consumption, which in turn increases the level of production that is reliant on energy
consumption.
