The effect of gender inequality on environmental degradation was examined for panel data of fourteen countries from the European Union (EU) from 1991 to 2016. The Quantile via Moments (QvM) and Fixed effects models were used to perform the empirical investigation. The results from the QvM and the Fixed effects models support that the gender gap pay and energy consumption increase the CO₂ emissions in the EU. However, the economic growth, globalisation and urbanisation deepening do not increase the environmental problem. This empirical investigation will contribute to the literature, policymakers, and governments. It will help develop more initiatives to reduces gender inequality at the same time it mitigates the environmental degradation in the EU countries. Finally, the empirical finds of this investigation will open a new topic of investigation in the literature about the relationship between environmental degradation and gender inequality.

从1991年至2016年，从欧盟（EU）的14个国家的面板数据中检验了性别不平等对环境退化的影响。使用了分时分位数（QvM）和固定效应模型进行了实证研究。QvM和固定效应模型的结果支持性别差距支付和能源消耗增加了CO ₂欧盟的排放量。但是，经济增长，全球化和城市化的加深并没有增加环境问题。这项实证研究将有助于文献，政策制定者和政府。这将有助于在减少欧盟国家环境恶化的同时，制定更多倡议来减少性别不平等。最后，本次调查的经验发现将打开有关环境退化与性别不平等之间关系的文献研究的新主题。