The relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption and environmental destruction in Iran

During recent decades, the importance of environmental issues, all countries are trying to plan properly and using appropriate methods, not only to achieve their economic goals, but also to minimize the environmental damage caused by economic growth. Accomplish this without the knowledge of the relationship between economic activity and environmental pollution and the interplay between them is not possible and the problem for developing countries such as Iran, which is still in the early stages of economic development, has become more important. In this paper, short-run and long-run relationship between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions (as an indicator of environmental pollution), using data from 1974-2011 of Iran were studied. To investigate the relationship between the variables, the econometric regression methods Distributed Lag (ARDL) were used. The results showed that carbon dioxide emission relative to environmental degradation and its value in the long-run elastic 2.27. According to the results of variable energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions significant positive and a long-term relationship with environmental degradation. In this case, the increase of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions further, environmental degradation is more; the comparison results show that short-run and long-term relationships Energy consumption in the short term greater impact on environmental degradation and destruction of carbon dioxide emissions in the long-run have a greater impact on the environment. The results show that the imbalance short term after two terms are moderated.