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6th World Congress on
Climate Change and Global Warming
April 24-25, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada
JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2019 VOLUME 10 | DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-056 SCIENTIFIC TRACK| DAY 1
Are all nations addicted
to CO2 emission:
Evidence from
association of Southeast
Asian Nations countries
Meera Munusamy and Belayet Hossain
Thompson Rivers University,
Canada
Southeast Asia is one of the
most vulnerable regions to
climate change. Energy-related
emissions from association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
countries represent four percent
of global greenhouse gas (GHG
emissions). Historically, there
was a one to one relationship
between carbon dioxide (CO2)
emission and GDP growth. This
research aimed at studying
the extent of the ASEAN
region’s dependency on CO2
emission and to examine if this
dependence has decreased over
time. Data are from the World
Bank for nine countries on C02
emissions, population, energy
use and Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) from 1971 to 2014. The
results of the study show that
all the countries in the ASEAN
region were dependent on CO2
emission but the dependency
varied across the countries.
However, after the year 1999,
dependence has decreased from
39% to 33%.
Biography
Meera Munusamy is a recent graduate in
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
from Thompson Rivers University. She had
been a Senior Researcher with National
Hydraulics Research Institute of Malaysia,
Ministry of Environment Malaysia. She had
carried out various environmental projects
from Bioremediation, Water & Wastewater
Analysis and Development of Hydrodynamic
Model.