Davies, J., X. Shi, J. Whalley——Journal of Economic Inequality: The possibilities for inequality and poverty reduction using revenues from global carbon pr...
时间:2014-12-23
Global carbon pricing can yield revenues which are large enough to create significant global pro-poor redistributive opportunities. We analyze alternative multidecade growth trajectories from 2015 to 2105 for major global economies with carbon tax rates designed to stabilize emissions in the presence of both continued country growth and autonomous energy use efficiency improvement. In our central case analysis, revenues from globally internalizing carbon pricing rise to 802% and then fall to 602