Carbon tax ethics

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dc.contributor.authorMintz-Woo, Kianen
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-07T15:41:27Z
dc.date.available2023-09-06T12:33:06Zen
dc.date.available2023-09-07T15:41:27Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-06
dc.date.updated2023-09-06T11:33:09Zen
dc.description.abstractIdeal carbon tax policy is internationally coordinated, fully internalizes externalities, redistributes revenues to those harmed, and is politically acceptable, generating predictable market signals. Since nonideal circumstances rarely allow all these conditions to be met, moral issues arise. This paper surveys some of the work in moral philosophy responding to several of these issues. First, it discusses the moral drivers for estimates of the social cost of carbon. Second, it explains how national self-interest can block climate action and suggests international policies—carbon border tax adjustments and carbon clubs—that can help address these concerns. Third, it introduces some of the social science literature about the political acceptability of carbon taxes before addressing a couple common public concerns about carbon taxes. Finally, it introduces four carbon revenue usage options, arguing that redistributive and climate compensation measures are most morally justified.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.articleide858
dc.identifier.citationMintz-Woo, K. (2024) 'Carbon tax ethics', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 15(1), e858 (15pp). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.858en
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/wcc.858en
dc.identifier.eissn1757-7799
dc.identifier.endpage15
dc.identifier.issn1757-7780
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews:Climate Change
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14936
dc.identifier.volume15
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.
dc.rights© 2023, the Author. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. WIREs Climate Change is published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCarbon pricing
dc.subjectCarbon tax
dc.subjectClimate ethics
dc.subjectClimate justice
dc.titleCarbon tax ethicsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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