RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do drivers of renewable energy consumption matter for BRICS economies? Nexus among technological innovation, environmental degradation, economic growth, and income inequality (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, (2022), 30, 5, (11321-11331), 10.1007/s11356-022-24665-3)

Muhammad I.; Ozcan R.; Jain V.; Ramos-Meza C.S.; Chawla C. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2025) · DOI: 10.1007/s11356-025-35920-8

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The Editor-in-Chief and the Publisher have retracted this article. Following publication it was brought to the journals attention that a highly similar article with the same title was submitted to another journal on the same day, but with no authors in common. Based on this, the Editor-in-Chief no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Author Iftikhar Muhammad disagrees with this retraction. Author Chanchal Chawla did not respond to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for authors Rasim Ozcan, Vipin Jain or Carlos Samuel Ramos-Meza. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2025.

Instituciones: Universidad Andina del Cusco