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Table 9 Variable, unit and sources

From: Determining the environmental effect of Chinese FDI on the Belt and Road countries CO2 emissions: an EKC-based assessment in the context of pollution haven and halo hypotheses

Variable

Unit and measurement

Sources

CO2/proxy for EQ

Million tonnes (Mt)

Global Carbon Atlas. http://www.globalcarbonatlas.org/en/CO2-emissions

Chinese outward FDI (CoFDI)

Chinese total FDI stock in millions USD

Statistical Bulletin of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment (2016). And United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2018)

GDP (Y)/ per capita

Constant 2015 USD

World Development Indicators. https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators

Renewable energy consumption (RE)

% of total final energy consumption

World Development Indicators. https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators

Energy intensity (EI)

Primary energy (MJ/$2017 PPP GDP)

World Development Indicators. https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators