Personal carbon trading in mobility may have positive distributional effects

Uusitalo, Elisa; Kuokkanen, Anna; Uusitalo, Ville; Huttunen, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2021.01.009

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Liu et al [80] show results of 103 EUR 3 /tCO 2 (84.42 USD) for 2030 in the "Regional Rivalry" (SSP3) scenario. The results are also in line with the middle-range CO 2 price used in the Lahti personal carbon trading scheme of 100 EUR/tCO 2e [57], although the pilot project also tested at a minimum of 27 EUR/tCO 2e (aligned with the EU-ETS carbon price at the time) and a maximum of 1000 EUR/tCO 2e [81] . SCC has a strong importance at climate policy establishment and besides some limitations [82](even more relevant when considering the use at local scale), it provides an indication on the order of magnitude of the carbon price to be applied.…”

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Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Ferreira¹,

Dias

Liu³

2022

Sustainability

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Debates on carbon costs and carbon pricing to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are emerging as cities develop local policies and programs to achieve carbon neutrality. This paper focuses on how cities formulate economic instruments and adopt carbon pricing experiments to support their climate objectives. Extensive literature is available on science-policymaking interface Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) and on the two mainstream approaches of carbon cost formulation—Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) and Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC). Although, the literature on how governments develop climate policy instruments, particularly towards a local carbon cost, is recent. We start by reviewing these essential concepts and tools for carbon cost formulation. We then critically review a set of local carbon pricing experiments, totaling fourteen international cities, and confirm a great demand for scientifically robust, verifiable, and transferable carbon cost methodologies at the local level. We thus propose an approach to assess the short-term technology cost of CO2 emission reduction in the mobility sector in Matosinhos municipality, Portugal. Our approach shows that a carbon cost methodology at the local level with robust, verifiable, and transferable results is possible. We advocate for a methodological advance to estimate versatile CO2 prices suitable for local conditions.

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Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Ferreira¹,

Dias

Liu³

2022

Sustainability

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“…The drivers that contribute to this re-assessment are the current state of the climate goals, development in technological capabilities, increased public awareness of the climate crisis and understanding of the impact of individual actions on the public good as a result of COVID-19, among others. [2,1,5]. However, there are open questions regarding the implementation and enforcement of such ambitious goals; first, about how PCAs must be allocated and second, about specifics on the carbon accounting [6].…”

Section: Personal Carbon Allowance -An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Introduction Research has shown that delivering on the goal set in the Paris agreement defining the 1.5-degree global temperature scenario may not be feasible with current measures [1,2]. To combat the worsening condition of the climate, the implementation of more stringent carbon management strategies on a large scale has been suggested [2].…”

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Effects of Sustainability Policy – Evaluating Social Consequences of Carbon Targets using Trip Completion Rates

Somanath

Hollberg

Thuvander

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Sustainability is widely recognised as having social, economic, and environmental dimensions. Strategies to combat global climate change inherently have an environmental focus. However, in line with the sustainability agenda, the social and economic dimensions must also be addressed. Evaluating the social consequences of decisions is often challenging due to a lack of relevant tools and indicators to measure and track them. This paper presents the Trip Completion Rate (TCR) as an indicator currently under development to evaluate the social consequences of climate change policies such as Personal Carbon Allowances (PCA). TCR is an accessibility indicator that evaluates the proportion of a population that can perform their daily activities against a performance metric. Two examples demonstrate the sensitivity of social impacts based on the geographic and demographic variations in different locations, one at the region level and another at the municipal level, through a national household travel survey (NHTS). The Västra Götaland region of Sweden is taken as a test case to illustrate how the indicator may be used, comparing TCR on the entire region and then comparing it to TCRs calculated at the municipal level. The greenhouse gas emissions of the trips are calculated based on assumptions for different modes of transport. Finally, the results are evaluated against a hypothetical PCA based on the climate goals for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. The results show that the ability to satisfy one’s daily travel needs depends on individual characteristics such as behavioural patterns of travel, travel mode choices and access to local amenities. We find that PCAs may disproportionately affect certain groups more than others. Policymakers must understand who is most affected by sustainability targets to ensure that disproportionately affected groups have an equal opportunity to achieve their daily needs and that adequate measures are taken to mitigate the local policy effects on social equity.

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“…PCAs based on equal-per-capita allowances would be progressive in all contexts where higher-income groups have higher emissions. Modelling in the United Kingdom, China and Finland has demonstrated that proposed PCA schemes in these countries would be progressive [61][62][63] , thus reducing inequalities. However, there will be certain lower-income/ vulnerable households with high carbon emissions who will be losers under PCAs.…”

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Personal carbon allowances revisited

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Here we discuss how personal carbon allowances (PCAs) could play a role in achieving ambitious climate mitigation targets. We argue that recent advances in AI for sustainable development, together with the need for a low-carbon recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, open a new window of opportunity for PCAs. Furthermore, we present design principles based on the Sustainable Development Goals for the future adoption of PCAs. We conclude that PCAs could be trialled in selected climate-conscious technologically advanced countries, mindful of potential issues around integration into the current policy mix, privacy concerns and distributional impacts.

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Personal carbon trading in mobility may have positive distributional effects

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Effects of Sustainability Policy – Evaluating Social Consequences of Carbon Targets using Trip Completion Rates

Personal carbon allowances revisited

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