The implementation of determined or ambitious environmental policies may lead to regressive distributional impacts, disproportionately affecting low income population groups …
This study addresses the challenging trade-off between maximizing environmental benefits and ensuring social fairness in a domestic carbon tax context. Focusing on France, where …
This paper studies the equity effects of energy and carbon taxes, as policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fulfil the legally binding reduction targets adopted in …
This paper studies the distributional effects of France's recently introduced carbon tax. Using a microsimulation model built on a representative sample of the French population from …
We develop a model of optimal taxation and redistribution under an ambitious climate target. We take into account vertical income differences, but also explicitly capture horizontal equity …
We examine how a European carbon price will affect citizens by studying its incidence on households in 23 countries of the EU. At the national level, the distributional impact before …
Economic inequality and climate change are pressing issues that have climbed high up the political agenda, yet action to mitigate both remains slow. As income is a key determinant of …
Carbon pricing is a core climate policy in many countries. However, the distribution of impacts is highly unequal across income brackets, but also across household types and …
Through its NDC, Brazil pledged to reduce its GHG emissions by 43% below 2005 levels in 2030, respectively. Carbon pricing could play a key role in meeting this objective. However …