Menna Tallah Sherif Abdelkarim Rakha  <br/><br/>
Investigating the potential role of technological innovation and clean energy in mitigating the ecological footprint :   An empirical study /  
 دراسة الدور المحتمل للتطور التكنولوجى والطاقة النظيفة فى الحد من البصمة البيئية :   دراسة تطبيقية 
Menna Tallah Sherif Abdelkarim Rakha ; Supervised Khadiga M. Elaasar , Dalia M. Ibrahiem  
 - Cairo :   Menna Tallah Sherif Abdelkarim Rakha ,   2021 
 - 144 , 27 P. :   charts ;   25cm  
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Economics 
<br/><br/> Mitigating the environmental degradation has been one of the most crucial issues that face the  world nowadays due to the threats of global warming, air pollution and the greenhouse gases  (GHG) emissions such as carbon dioxide (CO2). As a result, the international organizations  started to formulate policies that enhance shifting to renewable and sustainable sources with aim  of satisfying the nations energy needs and protecting the environment at the same time.The N- 11 countries depend intensively on energy consumption in promoting their economic growth  which raises the concerns of environmental degradation in those countries. Thus, this thesis aims  to investigate the potential role of technological innovation and clean energy in mitigating the  ecological footprint in the N-11 countries over the period 1992-2015 by applying panel  cointegration analysis.The results of the panel cointegration test indicate that the ecological  footprint (EF) variable, the clean energy (CE) variable, the GDP per capita (Y) variable, the  financial development (FIN) variable and technological innovation (TI) variable are cointegrated  in the long run. The results of the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) indicate a long-run  causal relation running from the ecological footprint (EF) variable to the clean energy (CE)  variable, the GDP per capita (Y) variable and technological innovation (TI) variable.This  implies that the environmental degradation (measured by the ecological footprint variable) faced  by the N-11 countries leads to shifting towards clean energy sources and technological  innovation in the long-run 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Clean Energy  Ecological Footprint Technological Innovation