Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled?
Abstract Carbon pricing has been criticized by environmental justice advocates on the grounds that it fails to reduce emissions significantly, fails to reduce the disproportionate impacts of hazardous co‐pollutants on people of color and low‐income communities, hits low‐income households harder than...
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| description | Abstract Carbon pricing has been criticized by environmental justice advocates on the grounds that it fails to reduce emissions significantly, fails to reduce the disproportionate impacts of hazardous co‐pollutants on people of color and low‐income communities, hits low‐income households harder than wealthier households, and commodifies nature. Designing carbon pricing policy to address these concerns can yield outcomes that are both more effective and more equitable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c28326522be4c00bdf34613eba29cd12023-04-03T12:40:46ZengWileyGlobal Challenges2056-66462023-04-0174n/an/a10.1002/gch2.202200204Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled?James K. Boyce0Michael Ash1Brent Ranalli2Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts Amherst 418 N Pleasant St Amherst MA 01002 USAPolitical Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts Amherst 418 N Pleasant St Amherst MA 01002 USACadmus Group 410 Totten Pond Road, Suite 400 Waltham MA 02451 USAAbstract Carbon pricing has been criticized by environmental justice advocates on the grounds that it fails to reduce emissions significantly, fails to reduce the disproportionate impacts of hazardous co‐pollutants on people of color and low‐income communities, hits low‐income households harder than wealthier households, and commodifies nature. Designing carbon pricing policy to address these concerns can yield outcomes that are both more effective and more equitable.https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.202200204carbon capcarbon dividendscarbon pricecarbon taxenvironmental justice |
| spellingShingle | James K. Boyce Michael Ash Brent Ranalli Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled? Global Challenges carbon cap carbon dividends carbon price carbon tax environmental justice |
| title | Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled? |
| title_full | Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled? |
| title_fullStr | Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled? |
| title_short | Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled? |
| title_sort | environmental justice and carbon pricing can they be reconciled |
| topic | carbon cap carbon dividends carbon price carbon tax environmental justice |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.202200204 |
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