Solarin, Sakiru AdebolaPata, Ugur KorkutErdogan, SinanOkumus, Ilyas2024-09-182024-09-1820230301-47971095-8630https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116436https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/11377Despite being directly related to anthropogenic consumption and production, researchers have paid less attention to understanding the dynamics of non-methane volatile organic compounds. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the persistence of potential shocks to non-methane volatile organic compounds in 20 developed from 1820 to 2019 performing traditional unit root approaches and a newly developed Fourier quantile unit root test. Great portion of the empirical results obtained by traditional unit root tests reveal that the sectoral non-methane volatile organic compounds follow a non-stationary process, while the Fourier quantile unit root test indicate quite different results. The Fourier quantile test shows that non-methane volatile organic compounds are stationary in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France and Austria. In the other 15 countries, government interventions to reduce non-methane volatile organic compounds can have lasting effects and success. The inferences and policy outcomes of the empirical results are discussed in the main body of the paper.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessNMVOCsQuantileFourierGreenhouse gas emissionsEnvironmental pollutionArticle32510.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116436362743112-s2.0-85140099989Q1WOS:000877503100005Q1