Given the pace of economic expansion arising from energy usage among other social and economic factors, emerging economies such as Turkey are increasingly becoming the focus for a net zero future. Therefore, the current attempt considers the drivers of environmental sustainability via load capacity factor (LCF) in the context of resource efficiency, renewable energy utilization, and globalization for Turkey over the period 1982 to 2019. By employing series of empirical tools that include cross-quantilogram method, quantile-on-quantile regression, quantile regression approaches, and the nonparametric quantile Granger causality approach, the result shows there is statistically significant evidence of quantile-to-quantile dependence among the trio of (resource efficiency, renewable energy utilization, and globalization) and LCF such that the dependence it reflects some levels of positive directional predictability, thus showing that these indicators are important drivers of environmental sustainability in Turkey. Furthermore, for the quantile-on-quantile regression results, there are statistically significant and positive effects of (i) resource efficiency on LCF across its conditional quantiles of distribution, (ii) renewable energy utilization on LCF and is mostly visible at the lower quantile up to the upper middle quantiles of renewable energy utilization (0.05–0.65), and (iii) globalization on LCF across the lower to upper middle quantiles. With the other empirical approaches providing similar results, the outcome of this investigation offers specific policy insight into resource circularity and energy efficiency.

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探讨资源效率、可再生能源使用和全球化的环境可持续性方面


鉴于能源使用以及其他社会和经济因素带来的经济扩张速度，土耳其等新兴经济体正日益成为实现净零排放未来的焦点。因此，目前的尝试考虑了在 1982 年至 2019 年期间土耳其资源效率、可再生能源利用和全球化背景下通过负载能力系数 （LCF） 实现环境可持续性的驱动因素。通过采用一系列实证工具，包括交叉量子图方法、分位数对分位数回归、分位数回归方法和非参数分位数格兰杰因果关系方法，结果表明，在（资源效率、可再生能源利用和全球化）和 LCF 三者之间存在分位数到分位数依赖性的统计学显着证据，因此它反映了一定程度的正方向可预测性， 从而表明这些指标是土耳其环境可持续性的重要驱动力。此外，对于分位数上分位数回归结果，（i） 资源效率对 LCF 在其条件分布分位数上的资源效率，（ii） LCF 上的可再生能源利用，并且在下分位数到可再生能源利用率的中上分位数 （0.05-0.65） 中最明显，以及 （iii） LCF 在中下分位数到中上分位数上的全球化。由于其他实证方法提供了类似的结果，这项调查的结果为资源循环和能源效率提供了具体的政策见解。