The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households

Lévay, Petra Zsuzsa; Vanhille, Josefine; Goedemé, Tim; Verbist, Gerlinde

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107065

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“…But some alternatives currently on the agenda, such as a universal basic income (UBI) (Van Parijs and Vanderborght, 2017) are not necessarily better in term of CO 2 emissions. As Sayer (2019: 46) puts it: ‘Simple redistribution of income from rich to poor, whether via a Universal Basic Income or by other means, is likely to increase CO 2 emissions because it shifts money to those with a high propensity to consume’ (see also Lévay et al, 2021). The debate has therefore evolved toward the idea of universal basic services (UBS) (see Büchs et al, 2021) or conditional UBI linked to ecological projects (Swanton, 2019) or Universal Basic Vouchers (Bohnenberger, 2020).…”

Section: The Prospect Of Low Zero or Even Negative Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts

Galgóczi

Pochet

2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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By the time of the COP21 Paris Accord in 2015, climate emergency was being recognised as a top policy priority by more and more policy-makers and the restructuring process it entails was seen as the main challenge of the coming decades. The welfare state that emerged in the context of a fossil fuel-based extractive economic model, based on a belief in sustained growth, cannot remain unaffected by the ongoing transition to a net-zero economy (Gough et al., 2008). Nevertheless, the different possible linkages between the welfare state and climate and environmental issues largely remain unexplored. This is what motivated this special issue. This contrasts, for example, with the issue of employment and jobs in respect of both quantity (OECD, 2021) and quality (Piasna et al., 2019), on which many global macroeconomic (Nguyen et al., 2022) and sectoral studies (Valero et al., 2021) exist. The main approach is to try to define what green jobs are and what employment creation or destruction is to be expected during the green transition (Bowen et al., 2018).Nothing similar has yet been done for the welfare state and its different dimensions (social insurance, social assistance, health and safety and so on) (Koch et al., 2016), or certainly not involving sophisticated quantitative measurements. But although for the moment there is still relatively little literature on the topic -'sustainable welfare' being one important narrative (Büchs and Koch, 2017), there is a growing academic community among welfare state specialists who are interested in environmental issues. A crude indicator could be the growing number of 'green' thematic streams at the annual ESPAnet conferences. At the same time, the socio-ecological nexus is even more overlooked by environmental scholars.Different groups of academics composed of economists, sociologists and political scientists have showed interest, but they are not really engaging in a transversal dialogue between disciplines or countries, not to mention a trans-European dialogue.From a welfare state perspective, a first approach was to analyse the possible concordance or lack of it between the welfare state regimes and the environmental clusters.

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Section: The Prospect Of Low Zero or Even Negative Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts

Galgóczi

Pochet

2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…Baldassarri, Allacker, Reale, Castellani, and Sala (2017) identified six categories of BoP products: clothing, footwear, house cleaning products, furniture, personal care and paper products, which are used in the current study. The studies described in Büchs and Schnepf (2013) and Lévay et al (2021) show that BoP is influenced by gender, age and income level. Furthermore, it is also impacted by employment rate (Ganong & Noel, 2019).…”

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Quantifying households’ carbon footprint in cities using socioeconomic attributes: A case study for The Hague (Netherlands)

Patel

Marvuglia²,

Baustert³

et al. 2022

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…Recent studies have shown increased attention to GHG emissions at the personal and household level [ 9 , 42 ]. The quantifications of the personal and household GHG emissions have been studied in India [ 1 ], China [ 10 , 19 , 27 ], USA [ 5 ], Japan [ 22 ] and Europe [ 7 , 18 ] from the regional to national scales. It was commonly acknowledged that personal behavior played a fundamental role in implementing of GHG reduction policies in these studies.…”

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Personal GHG emissions accounting and the driving forces decomposition in the past 10 years

Zhou

Cui

et al. 2023

Carb Neutrality

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Personal greenhouse gas (PGHG) emissions were crucial for achieving carbon peak and neutrality targets. The accounting methodology and driving forces identification of PGHG emissions were helpful for the quantification and the reduction of the PGHG emissions. In this study, the methodology of PGHG emissions was developed from resource obtaining to waste disposal, and the variations of Shanghainese PGHG emissions from 2010 to 2020 were evaluated, with the driving forces analysis based on Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model. It showed that the emissions decreased from 3796.05 (2010) to 3046.87 kg carbon dioxides (CO2) (2014) and then increased to 3411.35 kg CO2 (2018). The emissions from consumptions accounted for around 62.1% of the total emissions, and that from waste disposal were around 3.1%, which were neglected in most previous studies. The PGHG emissions decreased by around 0.53 kg CO2 (2019) and 405.86 kg CO2 (2020) compared to 2018 and 2019, respectively, which were mainly affected by the waste forced source separation policy and the COVID-19 pandemic. The income level and consumption GHG intensity were two key factors influencing the contractively of GHG emissions from consumption, with the contributing rate of 169.3% and − 188.1%, respectively. Energy consumption was the main factor contributing to the growth of the direct GHG emissions (296.4%), and the energy GHG emission factor was the main factor in suppressing it (− 92.2%). Green consumption, low carbon lifestyles, green levy programs, and energy structure optimization were suggested to reduce the PGHG emissions.

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The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households

Abstract: The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households

Cited by 38 publications

References 53 publications

Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts

Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts

Quantifying households’ carbon footprint in cities using socioeconomic attributes: A case study for The Hague (Netherlands)

Personal GHG emissions accounting and the driving forces decomposition in the past 10 years

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