کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
243633 501931 2012 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Distributional impacts of taxing carbon in China: Results from the CEEPA model
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی مهندسی انرژی و فناوری های برق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Distributional impacts of taxing carbon in China: Results from the CEEPA model
چکیده انگلیسی

This study aims to examine how mitigating CO2 through a carbon tax might affect the development goals of narrowing urban–rural gap and improving people’s living standard. In this study, the China Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis (CEEPA) model, a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model, was employed to simulate taxing carbon in China. Different carbon tax schemes were designed and their impacts on household disposable income, household welfare, economic growth, and CO2 emissions were compared. Results show that, given the current social security system that obviously favors urban households and the current investment-driven economic growth pattern, without complementary measures for protecting households, a carbon tax will not only widen the urban–rural gap, but also reduce the living standards of both urban and rural households. The negative impacts caused by carbon tax will enlarge over time. An ideal solution, no matter under an emission intensity goal or a total amount control goal, is to reduce indirect tax with carbon tax revenue, whilst increase the share rural households obtain in government transfers.


► Exempting households has weak effects on preventing expansion of urban–rural gap.
► Reducing indirect tax has much better long-term effects in protecting households.
► Increasing transfers to rural households helps avoid expansion of urban–rural gap.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Applied Energy - Volume 92, April 2012, Pages 545–551
نویسندگان
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