Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy

S Montfort, L Fesenfeld, I Stadelmann-Steffen… - Policy and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Public support for ambitious climate policies and carbon prices that have direct costs for
voters may depend on policy sequencing. Policy sequencing theory suggests that the …

[PDF][PDF] Reducing carbon using regulatory and financial market tools

F Allen, A Barbalau, F Zeni - Available at SSRN, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We study the conditions under which debt securities that make the cost of debt contingent on
the issuer's carbon emissions, similar to sustainability-linked loans and bonds, can be …

Public support for carbon pricing policies and revenue recycling options: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the survey literature

F Mohammadzadeh Valencia, C Mohren… - npj Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Since public support is critical for implementing carbon pricing policies, we conduct a
systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the survey-based literature on change in …

Carbon tax acceptance in a polarized society: bridging the partisan divide over climate policy in the US

A Marcos, JM Barrutia, P Hartmann - Climate Policy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Political polarization in the US hinders bipartisan support for carbon taxes. Polarization
operates unconsciously via implicit biases (implicit level), but it also arises when individuals …

Combating climate change through the welfare state: can social insurance boost support for carbon taxes in Europe?

M Nordbrandt, L Peterson, M Mårtensson… - Journal of European …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Carbon taxes are an effective tool to reduce carbon emissions but their use is hampered by
a lack of public support. We develop the theoretical argument that social insurance …

From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy

H Schwander, J Fischer - Regulation & Governance, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews recent insights from the blooming Comparative Political Economy (CPE)
literature on climate change with the aim to demonstrate the importance of integrating …

A principal-agent approach for the effective design of a renewable energy incentive for a heavily subsidized residential sector: The case of Qatar

SA Qadir, H Al-Motairi, F Ahmad, L Al-Fagih - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Qatar's per capita electricity consumption is one of the highest in the world, mainly due to the
availability of heavily subsidized electricity. The residential sector alone accounts for 60% of …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing Criticisms of Carbon Pricing

JCJM van den Bergh, WWJ Botzen - International Review of …, 2024 - nowpublishers.com
There is still considerable resistance against carbon pricing—ie carbon taxation or cap-and-
trade—in the social and policy sciences. We review its main arguments and conclude that …

Public acceptability of climate-motivated rationing

O Lindgren, E Elwing, M Karlsson… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent reports from climate scientists stress the urgency to implement more ambitious and
stringent climate policies to stay below the 1.5° C Paris Agreement target. These policies …

Carbon tax revenues and how to spend them: Danes' attitudes toward revenue recycling

TF Hedegaard, K Kongshøj - Politics & Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many countries are implementing carbon taxation to limit emissions, and this provides a new
form of tax revenue. Studies have taken up the question of what forms of expenditure from …