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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