Johannes Stripple
Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer | Principal Investigator BECC
Attitudes to personal carbon allowances : Political trust, fairness and ideology
Author
Summary, in English
The idea of personal carbon allowances (PCAs) was presented by the UK Environment Secretary, David Miliband, in 2006. Although no nation state is seriously developing proposals for them, they have been discussed within academia, NGOs and policy-making circles. PCAs can be seen as a logical extension of emissions trading schemes, which has so far only applied at the firm level, to individuals. The purpose of this article is to analyse some critical aspects of the public's support for a PCA scheme. In particular, the focus is on the relationship between people's attitudes to a PCA scheme and their trust in politicians, its perceived fairness, and its underlying ideology, respectively. The relationship between people's attitudes towards an increase in the current carbon tax rate and their attitudes towards an implementation of a PCA scheme is analysed. The study is based on a mail questionnaire sent out to a random, representative sample in Sweden.
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publishing year
2017
Language
English
Pages
87-108
Publication/Series
Personal Carbon Trading
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- Attitudes
- Carbon tax
- Climate change
- Environment
- Fairness
- Ideology
- Personal carbon allowances
- Public opinion
- Trust
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9781849711968
- ISBN: 9781136530128