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Perino, Grischa; Ritz, Robert A.; van Benthem, Arthur - 2022

Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple countries or states. Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives---such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable energy---that...

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A comparison of earnings justice throughout Europe : widespread approval in Germany for income distribution according to need and equity

Adriaans, Jule; Eisnecker, Philipp; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 44/45, pp. 397-404

The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European respondents consider very low gross earned incomes to be unjustly...

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Carbon Pricing in Climate Policy : Seven Reasons, Complementary Instruments, and Political Economy Considerations

Baranzini, Andrea - 2017

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 subsequent years. As there is still much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological...

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Justice profiles in Europe : major differences in evaluation of inequality

Moya, Cristóbal; Adriaans, Jule - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 9/10, pp. 67-73

important for designing social policies, there has been little research on this evaluation. To close this gap, we use justice … evaluations of income and wealth in the European Social Survey (2018/2019). We identify four types of justice profiles among the … justice and consider where injustice is perceived in the income and wealth distributions when designing policies. …

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Rules for the global environment

Siebert, Horst (contributor) - 2008

The paper looks at the global environment as a public good and as a sink for CO2-emissions. It discusses problems to be solved in institutional arrangements to protect global environmental media and looks at criteria for allocating the costs of emission reduction and emission rights. It analyzes...

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Effects of carbon pricing and other climate policies on CO2 emissions

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takáts, Előd - 2021

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...

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Two Decades of European Climate Policy : A Critical Appraisal

Böhringer, Christoph - 2014

Climate change ranks high on the policy agenda of the European Union (EU) which considers itself as a leading force in the battle against anthropogenic climate change. The EU is committed to the objective of limiting the rise in global average temperature to no more than 2°C above...

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Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2022

Using new surveys on more than 40 000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key factors:...

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Reconsidering climate mitigation policy in the UK

Arregui, Nicolas; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2021

The UK has pledged to cut greenhouse gases 68 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, to be emissions neutral by 2050, and to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Much progress has been made, but fully achieving these ambitious objectives with the current policy framework will be...

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Effects of Carbon Pricing and Other Climate Policies on CO 2 Emissions

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takats, Elod - 2021

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