Corrigendum to “Democracy, green energy, trade, and environmental progress in South Asia: Advanced quantile regression perspective” [Heliyon Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2023, Article e20488](S240584402307696X)(10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20488)

In the original published version of this article, references 36 and 52 were added instead of the intended articles, four references were mistakenly not included in the reference list, some in-text citations to respective references were missing from the text, and the placing of some in-text citations were incorrect. The original manuscript showed the errors as below: Incorrect references: [36] E. Johnson, E. Nica. Connected vehicle technologies, autonomous driving perception algorithms, and smart sustainable urban mobility behaviors in networked transport systems. Contemp. Read. Law Soc. Justice, 13 (2) (2021), pp. 37–50. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=996101. [52] A.F. Ahmed, M.Z. Islam, M.S. Mahmud, M.E. Sarker, M.R. Islam. Hemp as a Potential Raw Material toward a Sustainable World: A Review. Heliyon, 2022, e08753, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08753. Missing in-text citations: • "and trade openness [16]; Usman et al., 2022a; [43,81,82]."• "Naseem & Ji (2021) investigated"• "different sample of countries [54]; Adams & Acheampong; and [55]."• "Also, Zandi et al. (2019), [12]; and Jahangir et al. (2020) all agree"• "Adams et al. (2019) for Sub-Saharan Africa [115]; for BRICS nations; Jahangir et al. (2021) for selected developing nations [116]; for France."• "Midlarasky (1998) found a reverse influence"• "[73, 117]; and Midlarasky (1998) all came to different conclusions"• “Powell (2015) introduced”• “The study uses the Hausman (1978) test”• “the Hausman (1978) test results are”• “selecting the best model (Leitao, 2021).”Incorrectly placed citations: • “degrading environmental quality [38]. researched the as sociation between carbon dioxide emissions and trade openness in SAARC countries”• "permits using many control variables without biasing the results [58,59]. used [57] quantile regression method"• "while GDP growth greatly increases atmospheric carbon dioxide [67]. investigate the intermittent impacts"• "environmental impacts [68]. explore the relationship"• “the well-known STIRPAT model [74]. insists that the IPAT model is widely employed”• “anthropogenic activity affects environmental quality [75]. appeared to be the first to develop the IPAT framework”The erroneous references have been removed, missing references and in-text citations have been added, and the placement of citations has been corrected. The corrected version of the references and in-text citations has been updated as below: [36] Gao, J., Gao, F., Yin, B., & Zhang, M. International trade as a double-edged sword: the perspective of carbon emissions. Front. Energy Res., 9 (2021), 764914. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.764914. [52] Z. Ahmed, A.E. Caglar, M. Murshed, A path towards environmental sustainability: the role of clean energy and democracy in ecological footprint of Pakistan. J. Clean. Prod., 358 (2022), Article 132007, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132007. [118] Midlarsky, M. I., Democracy and the environment: an empirical assessment. J. Peace Res., 35(3) (1998), 341–361. [132] Jahanger, A., Usman, M., & Balsalobre-Lorente, D., Autocracy, democracy, globalization, and environmental pollution in developing world: fresh evidence from STIRPAT model. J. Public Aff., (2021), e2753. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2753. [133] Hausman, J. A. Specification tests in econometrics. Econometrica, 46(6) (1978), 1251–1271. https://doi.org/10.2307/1913827. [134] Leitão, N. C. The effects of corruption, renewable energy, trade and CO2 emissions. Economies, 9(2) (2021), 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies9020062. • "and trade openness [16, 33, 43, 81, 82]."• "Naseem and Ji [26] investigated"• "different sample of countries [12, 54, 55]."• "Also, Zandi et al. [72], Adams and Acheampong [12], and Jahanger et al. [132]"• "Adams and Acheampong [12] for Sub-Saharan Africa; Ren et al. [115] for BRICS nations; Jahanger et al. [132] for selected developing nations; Zeraibi et al. [116] for France."• "Midlarsky [118] found a reverse influence"• "[73, 117, 118] all came to different conclusions"• “Powell [57] introduced”• “The study uses the Hausman test [133]”• “the Hausman test [133] results are”• “selecting the best model [134].”• “degrading environmental quality. Afridi et al. [38] researched the association between carbon dioxide emissions and trade openness in SAARC countries.”• “permits using many control variables without biasing the results. Alvarado et al. [58] and Albulescu et al. [59] used Powell's [57] quantile regression method.”• “while GDP growth greatly increases atmospheric carbon dioxide. Sahoo & Sethi [67] investigate the intermittent impacts.”• “environmental impacts. Haldar & Sethi [68] explore the relationship.”• “the well-known STIRPAT model. Harrison & Pearce [74] insists that the IPAT model is widely employed.”• “anthropogenic activity affects environmental quality. Holdren & Ehrlich [75] appeared to be the first to develop the IPAT framework”The authors apologize for the errors.