This study aims to reveal the influence of industrial progress and agricultural value addition on environmental harm and explores how the unique moderating role of institutional quality handles this association; using the panel ARDL approach on a panel of South and East Asian economies from 1980 to 2020. The baseline model proposes that for each 1% increase in agricultural added value and industrial progress, carbon dioxide emissions may fluctuate considerably positively by 0.563% and 0.758% respectively. In the long term, the plausibility of the upturned U-shaped association between economic ...