IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 23, Issue 2, Ver. 2 (February. 2018) PP 11-22 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/0837-2302021122 www.iosrjournals.org 11 | Page Energy Consumption, Environmental Emissions and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis in Nigeria SulemanLawal Gambo 1 & 2 , Suryati Binti Ishak 1 , Normaz Wana Ismail 1 , Moukhtar Muhammad Idris 2 1 Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management,Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 Department of Economics, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, P.M.B 2218,Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria Corresponding Author: SulemanLawal Gambo Abstract: This study examined the relations of energy consumption, emissionsand economic growth as an important yardstick determining the level of economic activities in Nigeria. Using ARDL method to cointegration. The empirical results shown that in long and short-run analysis, we found the amounts of energy used have a significant and positive relationship with economic growth, this result shows that an increase in energy used Nigeria is highly interconnected with the gross domestic product as an indicator of economic growth while foreign direct investment and fossil fuel are negatively related to gross domestic products. Thus, we recommended that wind or solar source of energy might be discovered plus measured as a substitute basis of energy meanwhile Nigeria is sound gifted with the wind and solar energy. This will support in decreasing CO 2 emissions in another hand to supporting growth in long run. Keyword:CO 2 emissions, Economic growth, Energy consumption, ARDL --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 23-01-2018 Date of acceptance: 09-02-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION Recently, there has been emergent alarm about dilapidation and contamination of surroundings and climate change as the effect on prospect world development. In 2015, more than 190 countries representatives come across at Paris in France to deliberate the global conservational problems and their insinuations for prospect development of the both developing and developed nations (UNCED, 2015). The consultation noticeably signified out the relationships between natural environs and economic growth and placed accelerative the conception of "sustainable development" (DES, 2013). This has created bigger consciousness about ecological problems and eased the teamwork amongst the diverse nations to moderate our conservational dilapidation, mainly to moderate radiation of greenhouse gases such as CO 2 to avoid hostile environmental changes (Okubo & Levin, 2013), climate changes in forthcoming which if not stopped will have catastrophic costs for the health and growth of the human population globally (Nhamo, 2016). The associations amid the growth and the environs are diverse, the surroundings make available resources to our economy, then turns as a bowl for radiation and waste (Singh, 2010). Therefore, natural resources are vital contributions to the process of making goods in the several parts of the economy, although manufacturing and ingesting too prime to contamination and added burdens on the environs (Tietenberg& Lewis, 2016). Deprived conservational excellence, in turn, distresses growth and health by depressing the amount and excellence of resources or due to wellbeing effects, etc. In this perspective, ecological rules can limit the adverse responses from the economic growth on the environs. Nevertheless, in what way operational they stand and whether they create a left use to society is the theme of ample discussion and be contingent on the method they are intended and applied (Bergstrom & Randall, 2016). Thus, the encounter among environment and economic growth is severer nowadays than ever in the past, mainly in developing nations like Nigeria with fast-rising human population besides the mass poverty. Hence, the developing nations are making persistent struggles to set of scales on their want for speedy economic progression with the ecological concerns for protecting their natural base together (Omoju, 2014). In Nigeria, as in other developing nations, the embracing of growth plan centred mainly on economic growth, energy-intensive skills, and biochemical-based agrarian technology, disregarding indigenous growth model centred on locally self-reliant know how’s, has run to ecological dilapidation (Onakoya, Salami, &Odedairo, 2013). Nigeria's economy tussles to working leverage the country's very large wealth in oil and gas butstill country's poverty figure roughly.33% or more so, of its people (NBS, 2015). It has been argued that increases in