In light of the growing need for countries to stay within their ecological limits, this paper examines how the current wave of globalization and electricity consumption drive human demands on ecological resources for Ghana from 1971−2016. Having accounted for structural breaks, the evidence from the Autoregressive Distributive Lag bound test shows that there is a long-run association between the variables. The results reveal that globalization positively and significantly stimulates the ecological footprint. More specifically, economic and social globalization inspire the ecological footprint whiles political globalization improves the environmental sustainability by exerting a reducing effect on the ecological footprint. We further demonstrate that electricity consumption particularly from fossil-fuel based energy source deteriorates the environmental quality. Moreover, economic growth and urbanization contribute to environmental degradation. Furthermore, the causality results disclose the feedback hypothesis between ecological footprint and electricity consumption and a one-way causal relationship running from globalization to ecological footprint. Some policy insights are elucidated premised on the evidence presented.

鉴于越来越多的国家需要保持在其生态极限内，本文研究了当前的全球化浪潮和电力消耗如何推动人类对1971-2016年加纳的生态资源的需求。考虑到结构性断裂后，自回归分布滞后约束检验的证据表明变量之间存在长期关联。结果表明，全球化积极而显着地刺激了生态足迹。更具体地说，经济和社会全球化激发了生态足迹，而政治全球化通过对生态足迹产生减少的影响来改善环境的可持续性。我们进一步证明，电力消耗尤其是化石燃料为基础的能源消耗会恶化环境质量。此外，经济增长和城市化加剧了环境恶化。此外，因果关系结果还揭示了生态足迹与电力消耗之间的反馈假设以及从全球化到生态足迹的单向因果关系。在提供的证据的前提下阐明了一些政策见解。