Overcoming public resistance to carbon taxes

S Carattini, M Carvalho… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon taxes represent a cost‐effective way to steer the economy toward a greener future.
In the real world, their application has however been limited. In this paper, we address one …

Carbon pricing in climate policy: seven reasons, complementary instruments, and political economy considerations

A Baranzini, JCJM Van den Bergh… - Wiley …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. Discarded at the 2009
COP in Copenhagen, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in …

[HTML][HTML] Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing

M Mildenberger, E Lachapelle, K Harrison… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Revenue recycling through lump-sum dividends may help mitigate public opposition to
carbon taxes, yet evidence from real-world policies is lacking. Here we use survey data from …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, AA Hatab… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2023 - library.wur.nl
Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the resistance to carbon taxes: Drivers and barriers among the general public and fuel-tax protesters

J Ewald, T Sterner, E Sterner - Resource and Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon taxes are generally well accepted in countries with significant experience thereof but
there is still public resistance to raising them. We study attitudes toward carbon taxation and …

[HTML][HTML] Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?

S Carattini, A Baranzini, P Thalmann, F Varone… - … and resource economics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic
policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperation in the climate commons

S Carattini, S Levin, A Tavoni - Review of environmental …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Climate change is a global externality that has proven difficult to address through formal
institutions alone due to the public good properties of climate change mitigation and the lack …

Effective policy mix for plastic waste mitigation in India using System Dynamics

M Dhanshyam, SK Srivastava - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2021 - Elsevier
Mitigation of plastic waste is a serious concern for policymakers. The present waste
management system in India is grossly ineffective, with a significant proportion of …

The effects of pricing waste generation: A synthetic control approach

M Bueno, M Valente - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems
(UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on …

Attitudes towards carbon taxes across Europe: The role of perceived uncertainty and self-interest

R Umit, LM Schaffer - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
While using carbon taxes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may well be effective, this
has recently proved too unpopular to put into practice in a number of countries. Yet, at a time …