Does a carbon tax make sense in countries with still a high potential for energy efficiency? Comparison between the reducing-emissions effects of carbon tax and energy efficiency measures in the Chilean case

Vera, Sonia; Sauma, Enzo

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2015.05.067

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“…Among the developed economies, only the OECD energy consumption is accounted for 60% of global energy demand, which mainly consists of non-renewables and fossil fuels [12,13]. The inquiry into the role of carbon-tax, population, energy, and carbon intensity is logical and consistent with the strand of existing research [10,[14][15][16].…”

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“…The empirical results concluded that envirnomental related taxes are negatively associated with pollution level, while the tax policies may not effect the energy concusmption. Vera and Sauma [14] investigated the role of carbon-tax in mitigating emissions for the case of Chile. The empirical results claimed that imposed carbon-tax might reduce the emissions level by 1% with respect to the forcasted period 2014 to 2024.…”

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Exploring the Role of Carbon Taxation Policies on CO2 Emissions: Contextual Evidence from Tax Implementation and Non-Implementation European Countries

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During the past decades, environmental related taxes, energy, and carbon taxes has been recommended by environmental scientists as a policy tool to mitigate pollutant emissions in developed and developing economies. Among developed nations, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway were the first regions to adopt a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and research into the impacts of carbon tax on carbon emissions bring significant implications. The prime objective and goal of this work is to explore the role of carbon tax reforms for environmental quality in European economies. This is probably the first study to conduct a comparative study in European context for carbon-tax implementation and non-implementation policies. To this end, the present study reports new conclusions and implications regarding the effectiveness of environmental regulations and policies for climate change and sustainability. In the present study, the authors exhaustively explore the impacts of the carbon-tax on the mitigation of CO2 emissions. Using the propensity score matching method, the results of the estimation of the different matching methods allow us to observe a positive and significant impact of the adoption of the carbon-tax on stimulating the reduction of carbon emissions.

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“…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]. The same conclusion made by Justin et al also found that carbon tax effectively reduces carbon dioxide abatement costs and improves energy efficiency in the U.S. power sector [39].…”

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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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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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“…Wesseh et al [32] have shown that carbon taxes have a positive influence on a country's welfare when the model reflects the benefits from environmental clean-up in all regions except for low-income countries. Therefore, it is very important to guarantee that taxes do not hinder economic growth and welfare [33,34]. However, when analyzing the taxes assigned to climate change mitigation, it is more important to evaluate the effectiveness of these taxes in reducing GHG emissions.…”

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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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Does a carbon tax make sense in countries with still a high potential for energy efficiency? Comparison between the reducing-emissions effects of carbon tax and energy efficiency measures in the Chilean case

Cited by 87 publications

References 53 publications

Exploring the Role of Carbon Taxation Policies on CO2 Emissions: Contextual Evidence from Tax Implementation and Non-Implementation European Countries

Exploring the Role of Carbon Taxation Policies on CO2 Emissions: Contextual Evidence from Tax Implementation and Non-Implementation European Countries

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

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

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