Climate Change and Environmental Degradation in SADC Countries

1990 to 2024 data from World Bank indicators for Southern African Development Community countries was used to construct indices for climate change and environmental degradation via principal component analysis. The dataset supports a study by Olanrewaju Adewole Adediran analyzing the impact of climate change on environmental degradation using panel econometric models.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between constructed climate change indices and environmental degradation indices across SADC panel data.
• Model the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on environmental degradation using the provided indices and econometric estimators like DKSE.
• Assess the effect of trade openness on environmental outcomes within the 1990-2024 SADC country panel.
• Investigate cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity in climate-environment relationships using Panel-Corrected Standard Errors.

Strengths

• Data spans a 35-year time range from 1990 to 2024.
• Covers the 16-country Southern African Development Community region.
• Indices constructed via principal component analysis for robustness.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited raw data or only summary indices.
• Specific source variables and column-level data are not provided, limiting reproducibility.
• The analysis may be geographically limited to the SADC region, reducing global generalizability.

Provenance

Source

World Bank indicators.

Collection Method

Principal component analysis used to construct indices from sourced indicators.

Time Range

1990 to 2024.

Freshness

Data current through 2024, with a platform last update in April 2026.

Geography

Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.