This paper examines how income inequality can affect the polarization of heterogeneous party platforms on climate … distributional implications) and an income tax is combined with a model of a carbonintensive economy. For a higher inequality of pre … equilibrium can increase - even if the income tax is used to counteract the increase in income inequality. This result does not …

metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social … cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of inequality - heterogeneity in income below the national level. We … inequality between and within countries. In particular, we demonstrate that climate and distributional policy cannot be separated …