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DOI	10.1002/wcc.681
	The effect of carbon pricing on technological change for full energy decarbonization: A review of empirical ex-post evidence
	Lilliestam J.; Patt A.; Bersalli G.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1757-7780
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	In order to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, the world must reach net-zero carbon emissions around mid-century, which calls for an entirely new energy system. Carbon pricing, in the shape of taxes or emissions trading schemes, is often seen as the main, or only, necessary climate policy instrument, based on theoretical expectations that this would promote innovation and diffusion of the new technologies necessary for full decarbonization. Here, we review the empirical knowledge available in academic ex-post analyses of the effectiveness of existing, comparatively high-price carbon pricing schemes in the European Union, New Zealand, British Columbia, and the Nordic countries. Some articles find short-term operational effects, especially fuel switching in existing assets, but no article finds mentionable effects on technological change. Critically, all articles examining the effects on zero-carbon investment found that existing carbon pricing scheme have had no effect at all. We conclude that the effectiveness of carbon pricing in stimulating innovation and zero-carbon investment remains a theoretical argument. So far, there is no empirical evidence of its effectiveness in promoting the technological change necessary for full decarbonization. This article is categorized under: Climate Economics > Economics of Mitigation. © 2020 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
关键词	carbon pricing climate policy decarbonization technological change
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Carbon; Costs; Decarbonization; Emission control; International law; Investments; British Columbia; Effect of carbons; Emissions Trading Scheme; Empirical knowledge; Nordic countries; Operational effects; Technological change; Theoretical arguments; Economics; carbon emission; climate change; emissions trading; empirical analysis; environmental policy; investment; price dynamics; technological change; British Columbia; Canada; Europe; New Zealand; Scandinavia; Columbia
来源期刊	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249680
作者单位	Energy Transition Dynamics Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany; Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; Climate Policy Group, Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lilliestam J.,Patt A.,Bersalli G.. The effect of carbon pricing on technological change for full energy decarbonization: A review of empirical ex-post evidence[J],2021,12(1).
APA	Lilliestam J.,Patt A.,&Bersalli G..(2021).The effect of carbon pricing on technological change for full energy decarbonization: A review of empirical ex-post evidence.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,12(1).
MLA	Lilliestam J.,et al."The effect of carbon pricing on technological change for full energy decarbonization: A review of empirical ex-post evidence".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 12.1(2021).