Climate change has become a pitfall towards economic growth,
sustainable development, and ecological balance, which is not different in
Bangladesh. This study investigates the relationship between the ecological
footprint and the globalisation of Bangladesh in 1980-2021. The auto-regressive
distributed lag model (ARDL) bound test confirms the long-run relationship among
carbon footprint, ecological footprint, globalisation, and other control variables.
Long-run and short elasticity confirm that globalisation, population density, energy consumption, and political and economic globalisation stimulate ecological
footprint. On the other hand, economic growth is a culprit of ecological footprint.
It reflects alternative signs with an ecological footprint. On carbon footprint, results
are similar to ecological footprint except for energy consumption. As ecological
footprint increases, people consume more energy in the short run while less energy
in the long run. Laws enforced in the last or previous decades regarding
environmental issues need more strictness and acceptability to utilise energy
through advanced technology and robust inflows from the foreign sector.