Does digital adoption improve environmental quality and facilitate sustainability? Evidence from emerging economies

The present paper seeks to empirically examine the question: Does digital adoption (DA) improve environmental quality and facilitate sustainability? For the purpose, a pioneering attempt has been made by selecting a non-traditional tool of environmental quality (ENVQ) i.e., material footprint per capita (MFPC) and comprehensive set of explanatory variables along with a few interaction terms/variables. The research utilizes cross-sectional data for 55 selected emerging economies from Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa for a period varying between 2018 and 2020 and employs moderated multiple linear regression technique. This overarching analysis provides deeper understanding of the variables that can help improve environmental quality across the emerging economies.