Boubou, HayyanT. Kiss, Judit2021-06-292021-06-292020-04-14International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020) , 234-243https://hdl.handle.net/2437/318866Many countries are making considerable efforts to achieve solutions to environmental problems that we face today and developing renewable energy resources is one of the potential long-term solutions that constitute an absolute priority from a sustainable development perspective. The usage of renewable energy is one of the critical future challenges to reduce greenhouse gas emission and decrease energy dependency at the same time. Thus, replacing traditional energy sources with renewable ones, like Hydropower and wind power to produce electricity instead of fossil fuel. The objective of this study is to find a relationship between renewable energy consumption, macroeconomic factors, and the environment. There is a reliable and significant (at 1% significant level) association between REC with GHG and GDP and a relatively strong association with EC.Many countries are making considerable efforts to achieve solutions to environmental problems that we face today and developing renewable energy resources is one of the potential long-term solutions that constitute an absolute priority from a sustainable development perspective. The usage of renewable energy is one of the critical future challenges to reduce greenhouse gas emission and decrease energy dependency at the same time. Thus, replacing traditional energy sources with renewable ones, like Hydropower and wind power to produce electricity instead of fossil fuel. The objective of this study is to find a relationship between renewable energy consumption, macroeconomic factors, and the environment. There is a reliable and significant (at 1% significant level) association between REC with GHG and GDP and a relatively strong association with EC.application/pdfEuropean Uniongreenhouse gas emissiongross domestic productrenewable energy consumptionEuropean Union, greenhouse gas emission, gross domestic product, renewable energy consumptionEuropean Uniongreenhouse gas emissiongross domestic productrenewable energy consumptionfolyóiratcikkOpen Accessby the authorshttps://doi.org/10.21791/IJEMS.2020.1.20International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences152498-700X