ENERGY USE, ECONOMIC GROWTH, TOURISM ON CO2 EMISSIONS: SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Abstract -- High environmental pollution and increasing development in several industrial sectors, such as the tourism industry, are used as one of the drivers of the economy in a country, but this raises problems, namely as one of the causes of increasing global CO2 emissions. There is an increase in CO2 emissions, and this occurs due to the use of energy, one of which is transportation. Therefore this research was conducted to analyze the spatial autocorrelation between energy use, economic growth, tourism and CO2 emissions. Using cross-sectional data from 51 countries that have joined the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 2021. The results show that there is a significant and positive spatial dependence between CO2 emissions between these countries which tend to have a clustering pattern. Then the Spatial Error Model (SEM) regression results show that spatially the variables of energy use, economic growth and tourism have a significantly positive effect on CO2 emission variables. Based on this research's results, several proposed policy implications exist to improve environmental quality.

 Keywords : energy, economic growth, tourism, spatial