The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?

The modern world faces several challenges in maintaining sustainability. Public decision-making often prioritizes self-centered interests, affecting the stringency of environmental policies. The significance of environmental policies in the complexities of this era remains underexplored in the liter...

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Autores: Anwar, Ahsan, Balsalobre Lorente, Daniel, Sharif, Arshian, Syed, Qasim Raza
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/47364
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.128495
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/47364
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Environmental policy stringency
Geopolitical risk
Economic growth
Panel quantile regression
Sustainable development goals
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spelling The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?Anwar, AhsanBalsalobre Lorente, DanielSharif, ArshianSyed, Qasim RazaEnvironmental policy stringencyGeopolitical riskEconomic growthPanel quantile regressionSustainable development goalsThe modern world faces several challenges in maintaining sustainability. Public decision-making often prioritizes self-centered interests, affecting the stringency of environmental policies. The significance of environmental policies in the complexities of this era remains underexplored in the literature. The present study keeping in view the dire need for stringent environmental policies intends to design a unique model that covers the major factors affecting the stringency of environmental policies today, like the geopolitical risk (GPR), economic growth (EG), resulting carbon emissions (CO2), increasing technological innovations (TIN), and rapid urbanization (URB) hindering or boosting the efforts of sustainability. The study examines the G7 countries from 1990 to 2020 in this regard. The study adds to the Theory of Public Choice by extending the concept to environmental-related variables. The study applies the Panel Quantile Regression (PQR) technique to obtain results intensively. The inferences show that GPR and increasing carbon emissions hinder the enforcement of stringent environmental policies. Conversely, TIN, EG, and URB are making environmental policies more stringent. In light of study outcomes, the authors put forward practically viable policy implications which are considered helpful in securing SDG 13 (climate change), SDG 09 (innovations), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and societies), SDG 16 (strong institutions), SDG 08 (decent economic growth), and directly and several other SDGs indirectly.Elsevier202620262026info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.128495https://hdl.handle.net/10578/47364reponame:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLMinstname:Universidad de Castilla-La ManchaInglésREIG-GBS-2025/042.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/473642026-05-27T07:36:41Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
title The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
spellingShingle The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
Anwar, Ahsan
Environmental policy stringency
Geopolitical risk
Economic growth
Panel quantile regression
Sustainable development goals
title_short The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
title_full The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
title_fullStr The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
title_full_unstemmed The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
title_sort The sustainability cost of political crises: Do geopolitical risks affect the implementation of environmental policies?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Anwar, Ahsan
Balsalobre Lorente, Daniel
Sharif, Arshian
Syed, Qasim Raza
author Anwar, Ahsan
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Balsalobre Lorente, Daniel
Sharif, Arshian
Syed, Qasim Raza
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Sharif, Arshian
Syed, Qasim Raza
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Environmental policy stringency
Geopolitical risk
Economic growth
Panel quantile regression
Sustainable development goals
topic Environmental policy stringency
Geopolitical risk
Economic growth
Panel quantile regression
Sustainable development goals
description The modern world faces several challenges in maintaining sustainability. Public decision-making often prioritizes self-centered interests, affecting the stringency of environmental policies. The significance of environmental policies in the complexities of this era remains underexplored in the literature. The present study keeping in view the dire need for stringent environmental policies intends to design a unique model that covers the major factors affecting the stringency of environmental policies today, like the geopolitical risk (GPR), economic growth (EG), resulting carbon emissions (CO2), increasing technological innovations (TIN), and rapid urbanization (URB) hindering or boosting the efforts of sustainability. The study examines the G7 countries from 1990 to 2020 in this regard. The study adds to the Theory of Public Choice by extending the concept to environmental-related variables. The study applies the Panel Quantile Regression (PQR) technique to obtain results intensively. The inferences show that GPR and increasing carbon emissions hinder the enforcement of stringent environmental policies. Conversely, TIN, EG, and URB are making environmental policies more stringent. In light of study outcomes, the authors put forward practically viable policy implications which are considered helpful in securing SDG 13 (climate change), SDG 09 (innovations), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and societies), SDG 16 (strong institutions), SDG 08 (decent economic growth), and directly and several other SDGs indirectly.
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