Impact of Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, and FDI through Environmental Kuznets Curve: Perspective from Belt and Road Initiative and Pakistan

Table 1

Abbreviations and their terms.

Terms	Abbreviations
Akaike information criteria	AIC
Augmented Dickey-Fuller	ADF
Autoregressive deterministic test	ARDL
Belt road initiative	BRI
China national petroleum corporation	CNPC
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor	CPEC
Environment Kuznet curve	EKC
Foreign direct investment	FDI
Gross domestic product	GDP
Green house gas	GHG
International energy agency	IEA
Index of vulnerability	IOV
Oil and gas climate initiative	OGCI
One belt one road	OBOR
Pollution haven hypothesis	PHH
Silk road economic belt	SREB
Vector autoregressive model	VAR
Vector error correction model	VECM