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When is carbon pricing progressive?

Cite as: Ohlendorf, N. and Steckel, J. “When is carbon pricing progressive?,” Sustainable Future Policy Lab: Analyses, 2021-001.

 

Key points:

  • Understanding the distributional impacts of carbon pricing crucial to design socially acceptable climate change mitigation policies
  • Meta-analysis of 53 empirical studies containing 183 effects in 39 countries
  • Carbon pricing particularly likely to have progressive distributional outcomes in lower-income countries and for transport sector policies

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Blog post | 22 March 2021