气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean

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DOI	10.1038/s41893-019-0385-0
	Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean
	Vogt-Schilb A.; Walsh B.; Feng K.; Di Capua L.; Liu Y.; Zuluaga D.; Robles M.; Hubaceck K.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	941
结束页码	948
卷号	2 期号:10
英文摘要	Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policy tools, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programmes have been established as some of the most efficient poverty-reducing policies used in developing countries. We quantify how governments could mitigate negative social consequences of carbon taxes by expanding the beneficiary base or the amounts disbursed with existing cash transfer programmes. We focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that has pioneered cash transfer programmes, aspires to contribute to climate mitigation and faces inequality. We find that 30% of carbon revenues could suffice to compensate poor and vulnerable households on average, leaving 70% to fund other political priorities. We also quantify trade-offs for governments choosing who and how much to compensate. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Developing countries; Economic and social effects; Emission control; Environmental protection; Heating; Taxation; Thermal processing (foods); Carbon taxes; Climate mitigations; Environmental policy; Latin America and the Caribbean; Political priorities; Social consequences; Trade off; Carbon
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163540
作者单位	Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, United States; Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, Weihai, China; Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Institute of Economic Research, Faculty of Economic and Statistical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina; Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Department of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vogt-Schilb A.,Walsh B.,Feng K.,et al. Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean[J],2019,2(10).
APA	Vogt-Schilb A..,Walsh B..,Feng K..,Di Capua L..,Liu Y..,...&Hubaceck K..(2019).Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean.Nature Sustainability,2(10).
MLA	Vogt-Schilb A.,et al."Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean".Nature Sustainability 2.10(2019).