Peace not Pollution: How Going Green Can Tackle Climate Change and Toxic Politics

Edited by Christian Gollier and Dominic Rohner

in CEPR Press Books from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: There is growing awareness worldwide of the existential threat posed by climate change and the need for a green transition. Yet, specific ecological policy proposals are routinely rejected by large segments of the population. As argued in this 21-chapter strong eBook, while this may be partly due to freeriding or the utopic hope of saving the planet without sacrifices, a key role is also played by the fact that policy proposals are often badly communicated and ignore political economy incentives and adverse distributional effects. Yet, unintended distributional impacts of green taxes are by no means unavoidable, as a clever design can make any levy progressive. For example, a carbon tax with a targeted redistribution of the ‘carbon dividend’ is able to fight both climate change and inequality, without increasing the total tax burden.

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Chapters in this book:

Assessing the scientific impact of sustainable development, climate change and biodiversity projects in the Horizon 2020 program

Phoebe Koundouri, Haris Papageorgiou and Conrad Landis

Carbon pricing and social acceptability: Using EU ETS auction revenues for social expenditures in a changing world

Simone Borghesi and Albert Ferrari

Challenges for retail electricity

Claude Crampes

Championing the green energy transition without playing into the hands of populists

Christian Gollier and Dominic Rohner

Clean energy, clean politics: The key importance of decentralisation, transparency and local empowerment for the green transitio

Dominic Rohner

Decarbonisation and regulation of the electricity sector in Europe

Dominique Bureau

Equitable climate mitigation strategies in a world of high energy prices

Ian Parry

Is green growth achievable?

Pierre-Louis Girard and Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès

Mineral extraction and conflict in the era of green technologies: Implications and consequences

Mathieu Couttenier

On the new geopolitics of critical materials and the green transition

Rabah Arezki and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Phase-out policies

Estelle Cantillon

Promoting solar energy: Accounting for barriers to the transition

Aude Pommeret

Sobriety

Katheline Schubert

Taxing carbon

Thomas Sterner, Jens Ewald and Erik Sterner

The fast track to global carbon taxation

Andrey Polbin, Simon Scheidegger and Laurence Kotlikoff

The green energy transition, part 1: Background and hurdles

Franceco Paolo Mongelli

The green energy transition, part 2: Drivers, effects of carbon pricing, new externalities and policy challenges

Franceco Paolo Mongelli

The green energy transition, part 3: Climate finance opportunities, perspectives and strains

Franceco Paolo Mongelli

The green transition, energy security and energy independence

Tatyana Deryugina

Unextractable minerals and metals for the energy transition

Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti and Evelina Trutnevyte

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