Public acceptability of personal carbon trading and carbon tax

By A. L. Bristowa, Mark Wardmanb, Alberto M. Zannia, K. Phani, Chintakayalab. 2010

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Climate change is one of the greatest challenges confronting the international community requiring action to achieve deep cuts in carbon emissions. The implementation of potentially uncomfortable but necessary policy measures is, though, critically dependent upon public acceptability. This paper reports a novel application of stated preference techniques to explore the influence of key design attributes on the acceptability of a personal carbon trading scheme in isolation and when compared to a carbon tax. Illustrative forecasts from the models developed indicate the importance of design attributes, especially the basis of the initial permit allocation for personal carbon trading and the use to which revenues are put for carbon tax. Results indicate that the "best" scheme designs could be acceptable to a majority of respondents.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature (2019, background): “…et al., 2010; Carattini et al., 2017) - Tax rebate 1 (Kaplowitz and McCright, 2015) + 1 (Jagers et al., 2018) - Funding public transportation 3 (Bristow et al., 2010; Dresner et al., 2006b* Earmarking for environmental projects , in particular renewable energy development, affected positively…”
Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling: testing the acceptability of carbon taxes with survey data (2017, background): “As shown by Dresner et al. (2006) and Bristow et al. (2010), the acceptability of a given carbon tax design can be influenced by how agents perceive the instrument as effective (see also Brouwer et al. 2008 on a carbon travel tax).”
Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households (2010, background): “Suffice to say that possible avenues to achieve this include personal carbon trading or carbon taxation (Kerkhof et al. 2008; Weber and Matthews 2008; Bird and Lockwood 2009; White and Thumin 2009; Bristow et al. 2010; Cohen 2010; Feng et al. 2010).”
Public Preferences for Carbon Tax Attributes (2015, methodology): “On the other hand, Bristow et al. (2010) provide (23)Shah and Larsen (1992) argue that the regressivity of a CT is likely to be less pronounced in a developing country than in a developed country because the former may differ from the latter in the institutional factors that affect the incidence of ”
Distributional effects of carbon taxation (2016, background): “house heating, electricity) and lack options for substitution [27,31,32].”
Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions (2017, background): “literature on addressing climate change focused on discussions about specific instruments suitable for internalising negative externalities arising from greenhouse gas emissions (tax versus trading) [18,19], it has been increasingly recognised that a multiplicity of instruments is needed to foster s”
Who bears the brunt? Distributional effects of climate change mitigation policies (2011, background): “Little empirical research has been done in this area so far but it seems plausible that the (perceived) fairness of those policies will play an important role for public acceptability (Bristow et al., 2010).”