Constant carbon pricing increases support for climate action compared to ramping up costs over time

Bechtel, Michael M.; Scheve, Kenneth; Lieshout, Elisabeth van

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“…Sarangi and colleagues 2 combine satellite observations and an atmosphere-chemistry-snow model to study the relative importance of dust and black carbon in these layers, showing that dust dominates black carbon deposition as altitude increases. Similar aerosol transport layers have been identified in Europe, where seasonal input of mineral dust from the Saharan desert are known to alter the optical properties of snow 4 and promote melt 5 .…”

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“…But there has been little social science evidence to support this conventional wisdom. Writing in Nature Climate Change, Michael Bechtel and colleagues take up this challenge and find that the public prefers constant carbon pricing rather than ramping up costs over time 4 . Their findings have broad-ranging implications for climate policy as well as a number of other policy debates.…”

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“…Overall, the study by Bechtel and colleagues 4 shows that the public prefers a constant cost schedule for climate mitigation policies rather than an increasing cost schedule.…”

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A preference for constant costs

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2020

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A preference for constant costs

Warshaw

2020

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“…A few studies have focused on cross-country comparisons, using various methodologies, ranging from the collection of voluntary responses (UNDP 2021), public opinion polls (Ipsos 2020;Stokes, Wike and Carle 2015), surveys ran through Facebook (Leiserowitz et al 2021), and surveys which focus on a small subset of policies or countries (Bechtel, Scheve and van Lieshout 2020;Umit and Schaffer 2020). Umit and Schaffer (2020) use one question from the European Social Survey conducted in 2016 (ESS 2016), showing that support for an increase in fossil fuel taxation varies with the overall level of trust across European countries.…”

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Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies

2022

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2  ECO/WKP(2022)15 FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE: INTERNATIONAL ATTITUDES TOWARD CLIMATE POLICIES UnclassifiedOECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s).Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works.Comments on Working Papers are welcomed, and may be sent to OECD Economics Department,

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“…psychology Despite its potential for curbing CO 2 emissions [1][2][3] , carbon taxation encounters strong public resistance [4][5][6][7] , which greatly limits its actual impact. However, several studies have demonstrated that the acceptability of carbon taxation can be significantly increased, depending on how the policy is designed [8][9][10][11][12] . In particular, people strongly prefer carbon taxation schemes in which revenues are earmarked for environmental purposes [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] .…”

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Designing an acceptable and fair carbon tax: the role of mental accounting

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Chevallier²,

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2022

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Despite its potential for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, carbon taxation encounters strong public resistance in many countries. However, social acceptability of carbon taxation heavily depends on how the generated revenues are used. Citizens prefer carbon taxation schemes where tax revenues are earmarked for environmental protection rather than for non-environmental purposes (e.g., lowering the value-added tax or labour taxes). Here, we test the hypothesis that acceptability varies across earmarking domains according to a mental accounting heuristic, by which people create mental budgets where the origin of revenues is matched thematically with their domain of use. Across two experiments conducted in the United Kingdom and in France (Ntotal = 3500), we show that citizens display a specific preference for tax designs where the earmarking domain is matched with the revenue source (i.e. a carbon tax earmarked for environmental protection), relative to an unmatched tax scheme. Moreover, we find that acceptability of carbon taxation increases with the proportion of tax revenues earmarked for environmental protection.

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Constant carbon pricing increases support for climate action compared to ramping up costs over time

Cited by 31 publications

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A preference for constant costs

A preference for constant costs

Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies

Designing an acceptable and fair carbon tax: the role of mental accounting

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