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After the pandemic, humanity has been facing different types of challenges. Social relationships, societal values, and academic and professional behavior have been hit the most. People are shifting their routines to social media and gadgets, and getting addicted to their isolation. This sudden change in their lives has caused an unusual social breakdown and endangered their mental health. In mid-2021, Pakistan's first Human Library was established under HelpingMind to overcome these effects. Despite online sessions and webinars, HelpingMind needs technology to reach the masses. In this work, we customized the UI or UX of a Go Together Mobile Application (GTMA) to meet the requirements of the client organization. A very interesting concept of the book (expert listener or psychologist) and the reader is introduced in GTMA. It offers separate dashboards, separate reviews or rating systems, booking, and venue information to engage the human reader with his or her favorite human book. The loyalty program enables the members to avail discounts through a mobile application and its membership is global where both the human-reader and human-books can register under the platform. The minimum viable product has been approved by our client organization.

Southeast Asian countries have seen substantial economic growth over the years, but they have not been able to maintain environmental quality at the same time. Non-renewable sources constitute a significant proportion of energy consumption in the ASEAN which can have repercussions for long-term sustainable development. While the impacts of energy consumption and economic growth on environmental quality have been studied before, literature is quiet about the nexus between globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy, economic growth, and CO2 emissions in the ASEAN context. To fill in this gap in the literature, the present study estimates the effect of globalization, economic growth, and renewable and non-renewable energy on CO2 emission under the umbrella of the EKC hypothesis over the 1995 to 2020 period. Due to the presence of cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity of slope parameters, second-generation techniques of co-integration, unit root, and long and short-run estimations are used. According to the findings of CS-ARDL estimation, non-renewable energy and globalization contribute to environmental deterioration, whereas renewable energy has a positive contribution to environmental quality improvement in ASEAN countries. Moreover, the findings prove the validation of the EKC hypothesis in the selected economies. The study concludes that the region is developing at the expense of environmental quality while also pursuing enormous globalization initiatives. The policy implications and directions of the findings for sustainable development are discussed.

Southeast Asian countries have seen substantial economic growth over the years, but they have not been able to maintain environmental quality at the same time. Non-renewable sources constitute a significant proportion of energy consumption in the ASEAN which can have repercussions for long-term sustainable development. While the impacts of energy consumption and economic growth on environmental quality have been studied before, literature is quiet about the nexus between globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy, economic growth, and CO2 emissions in the ASEAN context. To fill in this gap in the literature, the present study estimates the effect of globalization, economic growth, and renewable and non-renewable energy on CO2 emission under the umbrella of the EKC hypothesis over the 1995 to 2020 period. Due to the presence of cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity of slope parameters, second-generation techniques of co-integration, unit root, and long and short-run estimations are used. According to the findings of CS-ARDL estimation, non-renewable energy and globalization contribute to environmental deterioration, whereas renewable energy has a positive contribution to environmental quality improvement in ASEAN countries. Moreover, the findings prove the validation of the EKC hypothesis in the selected economies. The study concludes that the region is developing at the expense of environmental quality while also pursuing enormous globalization initiatives. The policy implications and directions of the findings for sustainable development are discussed.