Is Environmental Kuznets Curve Supported to Sector-Level CO2 Emission? Empirical Study for 10 Industries in OECD Countries

摘要

The discussion on environmental problems and economic growth is closely related to the concept of sustainable development. The best known definition is given by the World Commission on Environment and Development - the Brundtland Commission, which promotes closer links between the environment and development. They emphasize issues of social and economic sustainability. Sustainable development is featured as a goal in dozens of national environmental policy statements, and in the opening paragraphs of Agenda 21 adopted by the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Johannesburg World Summit 2002 gave a renewed political commitment to Agenda 21.