Inequality in CO2 emissions across countries and its relationship with income inequality: A distributive approach

By Emilio Padilla, A. Serrano. 2006

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This paper analyses the inequality in CO2 emissions across countries (and groups of countries) and the relationship of this inequality with income inequality across countries for the period (1971-1999). The research employs the tools that are usually applied in income distribution analysis. The methodology used here gives qualitative and quantitative information on some of the features of the inequalities across countries that are considered most relevant for the design and discussion of policies aimed at mitigating climate change. The paper studies the relationship between CO2 emissions and GDP and shows that income inequality across countries has been followed by an important inequality in the distribution of emissions. This inequality has diminished mildly, although the inequality in emissions across countries ordered in the increasing value of income (inequality between rich and poor countries) has diminished less than the “simple” inequality in emissions. Lastly, the paper shows that the inequality in CO2 emissions is mostly explained by the inequality between groups with different per capita income level. The importance of the inequality within groups of similar per capita income is much lower and has diminished during the period, especially in the low-middle income group.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Studying the relationship between economic growth, CO2 emissions, and the environmental Kuznets curve in Venezuela (1980–2025) (2015, background): “[19] CO2-GDP Groups of countries Non-parametric estimations 1971-1999 GDP inequality → CO2 inequality”
Carbon Lorenz curves (2010, unknown): “In terms of Padilla and Serrano (2006), what they basically do is drawing concentration curves.”
Will History Repeat Itself? Economic Convergence and Convergence in Energy Use Patterns (2012, methodology): “Padilla and Serrano (2006), performing non-parametric estimation using concentration indices and a decomposition of the Theil inequality index, demonstrate that rising inequality in world income is followed by greater inequality in global emissions.”