Jakob Skovgaard
Docent | Universitetslektor | Principal Investigator BECC
The unlikely Mexican carbon tax—a question of economic-environmental synergies?
Författare
Summary, in English
In 2013, Mexico was the first developing country to adopt a carbon tax, confounding expectations that adoption of such taxes is mostly driven by international commitments and hindered by economic concerns: Mexico was not subject to international climate commitments and constituted an economy dependent on oil and exports to its NAFTA trading partners, which did not price carbon. To address this puzzle, we examine the relationship between environmental and economic factors in the adoption of the tax and whether they originate from the international or national level. We find that the idea of carbon pricing was introduced from abroad, allowing entrepreneurs to frame the carbon tax as economically and environmentally beneficial and build a coalition spanning economic and environmental actors. The 2012 elections and resulting fiscal reform moved the tax onto the legislative agenda and secured its passage.
Avdelning/ar
- Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
2623-2639
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volym
66
Issue
13
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Globalization Studies
Nyckelord
- carbon taxes
- economic-environmental relations
- Mexico
- policy adoption
- policy process
Status
Published
Projekt
- A price on carbon emissions: What makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0964-0568