The Impact of Natural Resources, Green Technology, and Digitalization on the Ecological Footprint in Emerging Countries

Abstract

The present work determines how natural resources, green technology, and digitalization can influence the ecological footprint in emerging countries. With high rates of economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization, ecological footprints of these countries have grown and this has brought massive environmental problems. The method used in the research is mixed accompanied with analysis of the data of various aspects, renewal energy growth, green technology consumption, CO2 emissions, and GDP development. The results reveal that green technology and renewable energy use is essential in improving the ecological footprints, but the high rate of urbanization and industrialization remains a key factor in the aspect of environmental degradation. The paper notes how economic growth and environmental sustainability occur in a complicated interdependence with one another, the issue is to institute all over embracive policies that can foster the utilization of sustainable technologies, improve energy efficiency and reduce the emission of CO2. Finally, the study recommends that greater integration is required into strategies that can decouple economic growth and natural depreciation in the emerging markets.