A proposal for a novel urban mobility policy: Personal carbon trade experiment in Lahti city

Anna Kuokkanen, Markus Sihvonen, Ville Uusitalo, Anna Huttunen, Tuuli Ronkainen and Helena Kahiluoto

Utilities Policy, 2020, vol. 62, issue C

Abstract: Climate policies targeting change in everyday practices have been weak. Personal carbon trade has been suggested as a market-based means to cap the overall climate emissions and to internalise the polluter-pays-principle, thus engaging individuals in climate action and creating an impetus for social change. Despite some academic interest, few practical applications and experiments have been performed. With digitalisation offering new possibilities, the aim of the paper is to propose personal carbon trade as a way to introduce a carbon budget for citizen-led urban transformation and discuss a practical case application from the city of Lahti.

Keywords: Personal carbon trade; Digitalisation; Urban mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2019.100997

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