Klenert, David, Mattauch, Linus, Combet, Emmanuel, Edenhofer, Ottmar, Hepburn, Cameron, Rafary, Ryan and Stern, Nicholas (2018) Making carbon pricing work for citizens. Nature Climate Change, 8. pp. 669-677. ISSN 1758-678X
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The gap between actual carbon prices and those required to achieve ambitious climate change mitigation could be closed by enhancing the public acceptability of carbon pricing through appropriate use of the revenues raised. In this Perspective, we synthesize findings regarding the optimal use of carbon revenues from both traditional economic analyses and studies in behavioural and political science that are focused on public acceptability. We then compare real-world carbon pricing regimes with theoretical insights on distributional fairness, revenue salience, political trust and policy stability. We argue that traditional economic lessons on efficiency and equity are subsidiary to the primary challenge of garnering greater political acceptability and make recommendations for enhancing political support through appropriate revenue uses in different economic and political circumstances.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.nature.com/nclimate/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 Springer Nature Limited |
| Divisions: | Grantham Research Institute |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2018 10:57 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2024 02:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90717 |
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