Abstract: In recent times, industrialized economies have focused more on achieving a sustainable environment while maintaining economic prosperity. However, it is clear from the current research that natural resource exploitation and decentralization substantially affect environmental quality. To experimentally validate such data, the current study examines decentralized economies during the previous three decades (1990-2020). This study discovered the existence of long-term cointegration between carbon emissions, economic growth, revenue decentralization, spending decentralization, natural resources, and human capital using panel data econometric techniques. The findings are based on non-parametric techniques, indicating that economic growth and revenue decentralization are the primary barriers to meeting the COP26 objective. Human capital drives down carbon emissions and contributes to meeting the COP26 objective. On the contrary, decentralization of spending and natural resources has a mixed influence on carbon emissions across quantiles. This report recommends investing in human capital, education, and research & development to speed up COP26's target accomplishment.

第一作者：庞继红，威尼斯商学院教授，研究方向：激光制造质量检测与控制。

该成果以“Non-uniform droplet deposition on femtosecond laser patterned superhydrophobic / superhydrophilic SERS substrates for high-sensitive detection”为题，2023年7月刊发于《OPTICS EXPRESS》杂志（中科院2区，IF=3.8）。