Carbon taxation in Russia: Prospects for a double dividend and improved energy efficiency

Orlov, Anton; Grethe, Harald; McDonald, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2013.01.008

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“…Siriwardena et al proved that carbon taxes in Sri Lanka in the electricity sector cause a visible reduction [36]. Orlov et al found in their study that carbon tax can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Russia's macroeconomic sector [37]. Vera et al agreed that carbon tax passed by the Chilean government will produce an expected annual reduction in CO2 emissions of 1% with respect to the estimated baseline during 2014-2024 [38].…”

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Can Environmental Tax Policy Really Help to Reduce Pollutant Emissions? An Empirical Study of a Panel ARDL Model Based on OECD Countries and China

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et al. 2019

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Under the background that environmental tax has increasingly become the main means of environmental governance in various countries, it is particularly important to study the effect of environmental tax on reducing pollutants and then put forward suggestions for building a scientific and rational environmental tax system. The novelty of this paper is the investigation of the pollutant emission reduction effects of environmental taxes in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and Chinese provinces at the same time, and further comparison of the pollutant emission reduction effects of environmental taxes in OECD and China under different environmental tax collection scales, industrial added value levels, and economic development conditions based on Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag Modelling Approach (ARDL). The data are derived from environmental taxes and pollutants of OECD countries from 1994 to 2016 and Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2016. The results show that from the overall regression results, environmental taxes really help to reduce pollutant emissions, both in OECD countries and China. From the grouping regression results, the OECD countries and Chinese inland provinces with small-scale or medium-level of environmental tax revenue and higher level of economic growth all show better emission reduction effects, while OECD countries with low industrial added value and Chinese inland provinces with high industrial added value have more significant effects on pollutant emission reduction via environmental taxes.

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Can Environmental Tax Policy Really Help to Reduce Pollutant Emissions? An Empirical Study of a Panel ARDL Model Based on OECD Countries and China

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“…also promote energy efficiency objectives if they induce firms to invest in fuel-saving production processes or substitute other inputs for energy use (Orlov et al, 2013). Likewise, incentives to increase energy efficiency, such as fuel taxes or subsidies for R&D, can also lead to investments in emissions reductions (Löfgren et al, 2008;Hammar and Löfgren, 2010;Triguero et al, 2014).…”

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Environmental investment and firm performance: A network approach

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This study examines the role of investment in environmental production practices for both environmental performance and energy efficiency over time.We employ a network DEA approach that links successive production technologies through intertemporal investment decisions with a period by period estimation. This allows us to estimate energy efficiency and environmental performance separately, as well as productivity change and its associated decompositions into efficiency change and technology change. Incorporating a network model also allows us to account for both short-term environmental management practices and long-term environmental investments in each of our productivity measures. We apply this framework to a panel of detailed plant-level production data for Swedish manufacturing firms covering the years 2002 -2008.

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“…An energy tax is the main market-based tool that can contribute to climate change policy. First of all, due to increases in energy costs, it should reduce energy consumption and increase energy efficiency [6,17,40,[45][46][47], which should reduce GHG emissions. In this article, which analyzed the impact of energy taxes on fossil energy consumption, our results showed that only in some EU countries (such as Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Spain) did the growth of energy taxes significantly reduce energy consumption.…”

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“…Energy taxes contribute to a decrease in GHG emissions in two ways, first by improving energy efficiency or using less fuel per unit of output (efficiency) [6,16,40,43,[45][46][47]. Energy efficiency is one of the main determinants and is related to a reduction in GHG emissions [16,24].…”

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The Contribution of Energy Taxes to Climate Change Policy in the European Union (EU)

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Energy taxes are one of the main market-based tools directed toward mitigating climate change in the European Union (EU). Therefore, the aim of this article was to analyze whether energy taxes really contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the successful implementation of climate change policy. Applying the Granger causality test on time series and using panel data analysis, the direct and indirect (via the reduction of fossil energy consumption (FEC) and energy intensity (EI), as well as the increase of renewable energy consumption (REN)) impacts of energy taxes on GHG emissions in EU countries were analyzed in the present study. The results showed that energy taxes did not Granger-cause fossil energy consumption, energy intensity, renewable energy consumption, and GHG emissions in almost all EU countries. Regarding the panel data analysis, the results showed that energy taxes did not, directly and indirectly, influence GHG emissions. Therefore, this paper shows that generally, energy tax policy in EU countries is ineffective. Thus, tax policy should be reformed and matched with an emissions trading system in seeking climate change mitigation.

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Carbon taxation in Russia: Prospects for a double dividend and improved energy efficiency

Cited by 59 publications

References 110 publications

Can Environmental Tax Policy Really Help to Reduce Pollutant Emissions? An Empirical Study of a Panel ARDL Model Based on OECD Countries and China

Can Environmental Tax Policy Really Help to Reduce Pollutant Emissions? An Empirical Study of a Panel ARDL Model Based on OECD Countries and China

Environmental investment and firm performance: A network approach

The Contribution of Energy Taxes to Climate Change Policy in the European Union (EU)

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