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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2019.1639490
	Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature
	Maestre-Andrés S.; Drews S.; van den Bergh J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	1186
结束页码	1204
卷号	19 期号:9
英文摘要	While carbon pricing is widely seen as a crucial element of climate policy and has been implemented in many countries, it also has met with strong resistance. We provide a comprehensive overview of public perceptions of the fairness of carbon pricing and how these affect policy acceptability. To this end, we review evidence from empirical studies on how individuals judge personal, distributional and procedural aspects of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade. In addition, we examine preferences for particular redistributive and other uses of revenues generated by carbon pricing and their role in instrument acceptability. Our results indicate a high concern over distributional effects, particularly in relation to policy impacts on poor people, in turn reducing policy acceptability. In addition, people show little trust in the capacities of governments to put the revenues of carbon pricing to good use. Somewhat surprisingly, most studies do not indicate clear public preferences for using revenues to ensure fairer policy outcomes, notably by reducing its regressive effects. Instead, many people prefer using revenues for ‘environmental projects’ of various kinds. We end by providing recommendations for improving public acceptability of carbon pricing. One suggestion to increase policy acceptability is combining the redistribution of revenue to vulnerable groups with the funding for environmental projects, such as on renewable energy. Key policy insights If people perceive carbon pricing instruments as fair, this increases policy acceptability and support. People’s satisfaction with information provided by the government about the policy instrument increases acceptability. While people express high concern over uneven distribution of the policy burden, they often prefer using carbon pricing revenues for environmental projects instead of compensation for inequitable outcomes. Recent studies find that people’s preferences shift to using revenues for making policy fairer if they better understand the functioning of carbon pricing, notably that relatively high prices of CO2-intensive goods and services reduce their consumption. Combining the redistribution of revenue to support both vulnerable groups and environmental projects, such as on renewable energy, seems to most increase policy acceptability. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	cap-and-trade; Carbon tax; climate policy; equity; policy support; public perception
语种	英语
scopus关键词	emissions trading; environmental policy; equity; literature review; perception; policy implementation; pollution tax; public sector
来源期刊	Climate Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153452
作者单位	Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; School of Business and Economics & Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maestre-Andrés S.,Drews S.,van den Bergh J.. Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature[J],2019,19(9).
APA	Maestre-Andrés S.,Drews S.,&van den Bergh J..(2019).Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature.Climate Policy,19(9).
MLA	Maestre-Andrés S.,et al."Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature".Climate Policy 19.9(2019).