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Climate campaigns, cap-and-trade and carbon leakage: Why trying to reduce your carbon footprint can harm the climate
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Perino, Grischa |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Governments and environmental NGOs campaign for carbon footprint reductions by households. Many of the behavioral changes recommended reduce demand for goods produced by sectors covered by cap-and-trade schemes. With a binding cap, greenhouse gas emissions from those sectors do not change. I show that climate campaigns create leakage effects if coverage of cap-and-trade schemes is incomplete. Campaigns that shift demand away from sectors subject to a cap increase aggregate emissions, as do campaigns to reduce carbon footprints generally if the capped sectors are emission intensive. However, campaigns targeting sectors not covered by a cap-and-trade scheme or propagating retiring of emission allowances reduce emissions. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1086/682572 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/archiv/workingpaper/wpneuesdesign/wp23.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1086/682572 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
