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E-Government, Innovation, and Renewable Energy Transition: A Triadic Model for Pollution Reduction in Developing Economies

Professor, School of Business and Economics, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bangladesh

Received: 11 Mar 2026; Published: 1 Sep 2026.
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Although the relevance of digital transformation in conducting government business has been widely recognised, the environmental impact of transforming government digitisation has not been fully comprehended, especially in developing economies. The available studies tend to address digital governance, technological innovation, and renewable energy adoption as independent factors in reducing pollution, but do not examine how these factors can be combined to achieve synergistic effects. This research bridges the gap by considering technological innovation and the adoption of renewable energy as moderating variables between the correlation and the relationship between government digitisation and pollution reduction in the N-11 countries between 2003 and 2022. Based on the hypothesis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this paper presents a composite framework to understand the interaction between digital governance and the ecosystem of innovation and energy transition. Based on the findings obtained with the assistance of substantive econometric methods, it turns out that, despite direct negative impacts of government digitisation on the level of CO2 emissions, the policy will be much more successful when enriched with an increase in the intelligence of the technological sector and renewable energy rates. The discovery of these interaction effects makes the present research a valuable contribution to the existing body of knowledge on environmental governance, providing policymakers with actionable new insights for balancing digital transformation with sustainability objectives. Therefore, this paper highlights the importance of the concept of digital governance, both as a direct facilitator of pollution abatement and a structural inducer to reinforce the positive outcomes of innovation and the clean energy transition in new economies.

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Keywords: Government digitization; Pollution reduction; Technological innovation; Renewable energy; N-11 countries

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Section: Sustainable Renewable and Energy Efficiency
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