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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 292, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112753
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Paris agreement; Climate emergency; EU ETS; Carbon trading; Carbon taxes
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This paper argues for the greater use of carbon taxes and a global approach in response to the increasing urgency of carbon emissions reductions. Carbon taxes can facilitate social redesign, while emissions trading is seen as ineffective and distracting.
The Paris Agreement and the subsequent IPCC Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C report signal a need for greater urgency in achieving carbon emissions reductions. In this paper we make a two stage argument for greater use of carbon taxes and for a global approach to this. First, we argue that current modelling tends to lead to a facts in waiting approach to technology, which takes insufficient account of uncertainty. Rather than look to the future, carbon taxes that facilitate social redesign are something we have control over now. Second, we argue that the trade in cap and trade has been ineffective and carbon trading has served mainly as a distraction. Carbon taxes provide a simpler more flexible and pervasive alternative. We conclude with brief discussion of global context.
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