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标题：The Income Distribution Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policy
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作者：Gbadebo Oladosu ; Adam Rose
期刊名称：IAEE Energy Forum (formerly: IAEE Newsletter)
印刷版ISSN：1093-4243
电子版ISSN：1944-3188
出版年度：2005
卷号：2
页码：17-17
出版社：International Association for Energy Economics
摘要：Mitigating the potentially dramatic impacts of climate change is one of the leading environmental policy concerns of the 21st Century. Since the combustion of fossil fuels is the largest single source of greenhouse gases in industrialized countries, carbon taxes and carbon emission permits are at the forefront of instrument design in this era of incentive-based policies (Weyant, 1999; Rose and Oladosu, 2002). While promising a cost-effective solution, the macroeconomic impact of implementing these instruments is, however, predicted on average to be negative for most policy designs.1 The distribution of the cost burden of climate change mitigation policies, like that of nearly all environmental and energy policies, will inevitably be uneven within and across the categories of households and businesses (Rose et al., 1988). The benefits of these policies (avoided damages of climate change) are distributed unevenly as well, and in a different manner than the cost (see, e.g., Oladosu, 2000). Although dozens of studies have investigated potential aggregate economic impacts of climate change policy (see, e.g., Weyant, 1999; IPCC, 2001), very few have examined their distributional impacts.