The role of eco-innovations, trade openness, and human capital in sustainable renewable energy consumption: Evidence using CS-ARDL approach.

Recently, Group of 20 (G20) economies has faced extensive energy consumption issues and lack of attention has been paid by the researchers towards the effectiveness of key driven factors REW energy consumption such as ecological innovation, trade openness and human capital. The study, thereby, examines the association between said constructs and provides evidences from G-20 economies covering the period from 1995 to 2019, hence addressing the literary gap. The study used multiple methods such as second-generation panel estimation method for unit root, CS-ARDL technique to find out the association among constructs in short and long run and AMG and CCEMG method for robustness analysis. Results revealed that eco-innovations, trade openness and human capital play significantly positive role in the adoption of renewable energy consumption in G-20 countries. These estimations are found to be robust in AMG and CCEMG analysis. Relevant policies are suggested to be made by practitioners based on the obtained results. • Renewable energy consumption improves the environmental conditions in the country. • Eco-innovation leads the industry towards renewable energy consumption. • Upsurge in Human capital significantly reduces environmental degradation. • Trade openness is the foremost factors that increase renewable energy consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]