This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … 2014 for a panel of 76 countries clustered into income groups. Using dynamic panel estimations techniques, the empirical … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated …

a role in explaining CO2 emissions. -- CO2 emissions ; developing countries ; panel data ; population growth … ; urbanization …