Making carbon pricing work for citizens

D Klenert, L Mattauch, E Combet, O Edenhofer… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
The gap between actual carbon prices and those required to achieve ambitious climate
change mitigation could be closed by enhancing the public acceptability of carbon pricing …

Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature

S Maestre-Andrés, S Drews, J Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing

M Mildenberger, E Lachapelle, K Harrison… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Revenue recycling through lump-sum dividends may help mitigate public opposition to
carbon taxes, yet evidence from real-world policies is lacking. Here we use survey data from …

Overcoming public resistance to carbon taxes

S Carattini, M Carvalho… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon taxes represent a cost‐effective way to steer the economy toward a greener future.
In the real world, their application has however been limited. In this paper, we address one …

French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies

T Douenne, A Fabre - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the prospects for French climate policies after the Yellow Vests
crisis halted the planned increase in the carbon tax. From a large representative survey, we …

What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies

S Drews, JCJM Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The lack of broad public support prevents the implementation of effective climate policies.
This article aims to examine why citizens support or reject climate policies. For this purpose …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the resistance to carbon taxes: Drivers and barriers among the general public and fuel-tax protesters

J Ewald, T Sterner, E Sterner - Resource and Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon taxes are generally well accepted in countries with significant experience thereof but
there is still public resistance to raising them. We study attitudes toward carbon taxation and …

Carbon tax acceptability with information provision and mixed revenue uses

S Maestre-Andrés, S Drews, I Savin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Public acceptability of carbon taxation depends on its revenue use. Which single or mixed
revenue use is most appropriate, and which perceptions of policy effectiveness and fairness …

Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany

G Perino, H Schwickert - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
A tax on meat could help address the climate impact and animal welfare issues associated
with the production of meat. Through a referendum choice experiment with more than 2,800 …

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?

S Carattini, A Baranzini, P Thalmann, F Varone… - … and resource economics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic
policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability …