Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Panel Data for SADC Countries

1990 to 2024 data from the World Bank was used to construct indices for climate change and environmental degradation in Southern African Development Community countries. The dataset supports a study employing Pooled OLS, Fixed-Effects, Driscoll-Kraay, and Panel-Corrected Standard Error estimators. It was created by Olanrewaju Adewole Adediran and shared on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyze the long-run relationship between constructed climate change indices and environmental degradation indices using cointegration techniques.
• Model the impact of trade openness on environmental degradation within a panel of SADC countries from 1990 to 2024.
• Assess cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity in climate-environment models using Driscoll-Kraay Standard Error (DKSE) estimators.
• Investigate the sensitivity of results linking greenhouse gas emissions to crop productivity, particularly for cereals, across the SADC region.

Strengths

• Data spans a 35-year period from 1990 to 2024, providing a long-term view.
• Analysis covers the 16-country Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.
• Employs multiple robust estimation methods (Pooled OLS, Fixed-Effects, DKSE, PCSE) for validation.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited raw data or only summary/result tables.
• Specific source columns, row counts, and the exact construction of the principal component indices are not provided.
• Findings are specific to the SADC region and may not generalize to other geographic areas.

Provenance

Source

World Bank indicators.

Collection Method

Principal component analysis used to construct indices; econometric models applied for analysis.

Time Range

1990 to 2024

Freshness

Data covers up to 2024; metadata last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.