Global Carbon Inequality, 1990-2019: The Impact of Wealth Concentration on the Distribution of World Emissions

Chancel, Lucas

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1404683/v1

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“…The study also supports existing evidence on experiential inequalities regarding climate change (21). We found that eco-anxiety is higher among adolescents from less a uent families.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Climate anxiety is associated with self-efficacy and behavioural engagement amongst adolescents: a cross sectional analysis

Turcotte-Tremblay

Fortier

Bélanger

et al. 2023

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Background Adolescents are increasingly aware of the treats of climate change and encouraged to take part in environmental actions. However, the current understanding climate anxiety adolescents is sparse. This study establishes the characteristics of adolescents who experience functional impairments induced by climate anxiety and who adopt pro-environment behaviours. It also characterizes the association between climate anxiety, feelings of self-efficacy and environmental actions. Methods 2 379) from 113 schools in Quebec answered questions about climate anxiety, self-efficacy, behavioural engagement and several indicators of wellbeing. Data were analysed using poisson regressions adjusted for potential confounders (age, gender, school type, material deprivation, etc). Results More than one in ten adolescents (11%) reported that thinking about climate change makes it difficult to sleep or interferes with their ability to get work or assignments done. Only 35% of adolescents believed that they can do something to address the problem and 44% tried to reduce their behaviors that contribute to climate change. Adolescents who are boys and who are less anxious were less preoccupied and involved in the fight against climate change. Teenagers from less affluent families were more concerned, but not more engaged. Those with a good relationship with their family and strong school connectedness were both less concerned and more involved in the fight against climate change. Adolescents who felt they can do something about climate change were more likely to try to reduce behaviors that contribute to climate change. Conclusion The findings are useful to identify and support vulnerable groups that are more likely to experience functional impairments due to climate anxiety. The feeling of climate self-efficacy was not well developed among some groups of adolescents. Improving the youth’s beliefs in their capacity to help address the climate change may be a key strategy to promote pro-environmental actions. As the threat of climate change increases, it will be important to follow the evolution of climate anxiety and engagement amongst adolescents.

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“…The study also supports existing evidence on experiential inequalities regarding climate change (21). We found that eco-anxiety is higher among adolescents from less a uent families.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Climate anxiety is associated with self-efficacy and behavioural engagement amongst adolescents: a cross sectional analysis

Turcotte-Tremblay

Fortier

Bélanger

et al. 2023

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“…Second, unsurprisingly, we observe that the households with the highest income level tend to also have the highest overall carbon footprints (Figure 2) (Chancel & Piketty, 2015; Ivanova & Wood, 2020; Otto et al., 2019). However, in contrast to findings from other countries such as China or the US (Jorgenson et al., 2017; Wiedenhofer et al., 2017), the emissions disparities among Japanese households are not very substantial between income groups.…”

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confidence: 87%

Carbon Footprint Differentiation in the Japanese Residential Sector Due To Income‐Driven Divergences in Consumption and Time Allocation

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Households are responsible for a large fraction of the direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) at the national level. However, emission patterns are not homogeneous within the residential sector, with several factors affecting them. This study explores how income‐related divergences in consumption and time allocation affect the carbon footprint of the Japanese residential sector. To achieve this, we combine data on emission intensities from national input‐output tables with household‐level consumption and time allocation data from two large‐scale nationally representative surveys. Overall, we find that indirect emissions account for approximately 78% of the overall carbon footprint of the residential sector across the studied income groups. The overall carbon footprint and the emissions of several individual consumption categories follow an N‐shaped curve, with some of the lower‐income groups having disproportionately higher emissions compared to middle‐ and higher‐income groups. Conversely, emissions for other individual consumption categories increase almost linearly with income. This points to the fact that different factors can affect emissions across income groups. Specifically, the N‐shaped curves are driven by the propensity of lower‐income households to spend more time at home and rely on inefficient technologies, while the linear trend is driven by the propensity of higher‐income households to consume more. A detailed understanding of how these factors affect emissions patterns can provide useful insights for designing and implementing effective policies to achieve decarbonization the residential sector.

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“…Environmental deterioration, in particular, climate change and mounting income inequalities (Chancel and Piketty, 2015) are two key challenges for policy think-tanks in the decades to approach. The rapid economic growth of South Asia has brought about the rising scale of carbon emissions.…”

Section: Carbon Emissions Inequalities and Economic Freedom–selected ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Different forms of “environmental inequalities” pertain to Chancel and Piketty (2015):Inequalities in revelation and contribution to pollutionInequalities by climatic policy-effects to modify the income spread, andInequalities in policy-making …”

Section: Carbon Emissions Inequalities and Economic Freedom–selected ...mentioning

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Carbon emissions, inequalities and economic freedom: an empirical investigation in selected South Asian economies

Jain¹,

Kaur

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze and empirically test the impact of Economic Freedom [(EF) measured by size of the government] and inequality on environmental pollutants in addition to macroeconomic variables like per capita GDP, governance indicators, etc. along with existence of non-linear (Kuznets) postulation between economic growth and per capita emissions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the select Asian nations' data attributes, first qualitatively using correlation data technique, followed by empirical testing using differenced Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). Using the data of selected Asian countries for the period from 1981 to 2016, the authors have applied a dynamic panel technique.FindingsThe key findings that emerge from the study are as follows: first, there is weak evidence for the existence of the Kuznets curve based on the empirical results; second, the results indicate that increased EF (by lower government size) could enable to contain carbon emissions; third, there is a negative relationship between democracy and environmental quality (corroborating to the existing studies on carbon emissions); and fourth, there is a strong statistical evidence that increasing income inequality pairs with greater emissions in the middle range of Gini.Practical implicationsThe paper conforms to the universally held conviction that government interventions are essentially less productive and the desirability of a reduced size of the government in realizing sustainable green growth with equity.Social implicationsIn an era of liberalization and privatization, it is argued that the role of the government needs to be redefined if not necessarily truncated.Originality/valueThe current paper incorporates Gini (inequality measure) through its intercountry range dummies to study the differential effect of Gini on carbon emissions. Also, in some of the recent studies, distributional issues have surfaced explicitly in the discussion of income–climatic change relationship, but EF largely remains missing. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the same empirically.

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Global Carbon Inequality, 1990-2019: The Impact of Wealth Concentration on the Distribution of World Emissions

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Climate anxiety is associated with self-efficacy and behavioural engagement amongst adolescents: a cross sectional analysis

Climate anxiety is associated with self-efficacy and behavioural engagement amongst adolescents: a cross sectional analysis

Carbon Footprint Differentiation in the Japanese Residential Sector Due To Income‐Driven Divergences in Consumption and Time Allocation

Carbon emissions, inequalities and economic freedom: an empirical investigation in selected South Asian economies

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