Financial compensations are often proposed to address regressive distributional impacts of
carbon taxes. While financial compensations have shown to benefit vulnerable groups …

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 …