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Reshaping sustainability through climate attention, financial regulations, and energy policy

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  • Chunhui Wu
  • Nasiru Inuwa
  • Lianne M.Q. Lee
  • Sana Fatima
  • Muhammad Saeed Meo

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The United States is classified as “insufficient†by the climate action tracker (CAT), indicating a lack of progress in addressing crucial environmental concerns. This highlights the inadequacy of current policy measures, especially in achieving the sustainable development goal (SDG) 13. In view of this, the present study examines the impact of public climate attention, financial regulations, and energy policy uncertainty on the load capacity factor in the United States. The quarterly data spanning from 2004 to 2021 has been analyzed by employing a unique bootstrap rolling window Granger causality test. The findings confirm that an increase in public climate attention and financial regulations positively affects the load capacity factor, indicating an improvement in environmental quality. Further, it was found that an increase in energy policy uncertainty negatively affects the load capacity factor, indicating environmental degradation. The study highlights policy implications to support the United States in achieving SDG 13.

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  • Chunhui Wu & Nasiru Inuwa & Lianne M.Q. Lee & Sana Fatima & Muhammad Saeed Meo, 2026. "Reshaping sustainability through climate attention, financial regulations, and energy policy," Energy & Environment, , vol. 37(3), pages 1322-1342, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:engenv:v:37:y:2026:i:3:p:1322-1342
    DOI: 10.1177/0958305X241261881
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