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Achieving sustainable development with the application of artificial intelligence: Effects on global green energy security amid geopolitical risk

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  • Chishti, Muhammad Zubair
  • Ali, Asif
  • Javaid, Muhammad Qasim
  • Özkan, Oktay

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Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG-7) aims to ensure 'affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all' by 2030, a vision closely aligned with green energy security (GES). GES is a key driver of global sustainable development, fostering environmentally responsible economic growth and societal well-being. Global economies face growing vulnerabilities from climate change, geopolitical instability, and rising energy prices, so their independence is increasingly at risk. In this context, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) as an advanced technology becomes crucial in enhancing GES globally. Hence, our study analyzes the effects of AI on GES amid geopolitical risk (GPR), utilizing the daily data from 6 to 01–2018 to 30-08-2024. The application of two novel Quantile-Quantile TVP-VAR connectedness and the rolling windows wavelet quantile regression methods reveals that AI, in particular, consistently has positive effects on GES across the short, medium, and long run. In contrast, GPR exhibits mixed but predominantly adverse effects in all periods except for the long run, in which it has a mixed influence. The effects of the Paris Agreement (PA), digital financial inclusion (DFI), and green finance (GF) have mixed but predominantly positive effects, specifically in the long run. The results indicate that the relationships between AI, GPR, PA, GF, DFI, and GES are diverse and time-varying, depending on different market conditions. Hence, our study offers several time-horizon-wise policy implications for global authorities to target SDG-7 worldwide.

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  • Chishti, Muhammad Zubair & Ali, Asif & Javaid, Muhammad Qasim & Özkan, Oktay, 2026. "Achieving sustainable development with the application of artificial intelligence: Effects on global green energy security amid geopolitical risk," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:85:y:2026:i:c:s0160791x25003914
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103201
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