Who emits most? Associations between socio-economic factors and UK households' home energy, transport, indirect and total CO2 emissions
Who emits most? Associations between socio-economic factors and UK households' home energy, transport, indirect and total CO2 emissions
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.03.007
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
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Schnepf, Sylke V.
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作者：
Buechs, Milena;Schnepf, Sylke V.
家庭特征和家庭二氧化碳排放之间的关联在家庭能源、交通运输和间接排放等领域是否有所不同？这个问题与政策有关，因为如果特定类型的家庭在某些地区的排放量可能高于其他地区，缓解政策的分配影响可能会因目标排放地区而有所不同。到目前为止，这个问题还没有在有关家庭二氧化碳排放的文献中得到深入研究。利用一项具有代表性的英国支出调查，本文比较了收入、家庭规模、教育、性别、失业和城乡位置等家庭特征与这三个地区以及总排放量之间的差异。我们发现，这些关联在不同的发射领域有很大的不同。特别是，尽管所有类型的排放都会随着收入的增加而增加，但与其他领域相比，低收入、失业和老年家庭更有可能来自家庭能源的高排放，这表明他们可能较少受到交通碳税或总排放量的影响。这表明，需要针对不同的排放域审查与缓解政策有关的公平影响。(C)2013爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for areas such as home energy, transport and indirect emissions? This question is policy relevant because distributional implications of mitigation policies may vary depending on the area of emissions that is targeted if specific types of households are likely to have higher emissions in some areas than in others. So far, this issue has not been examined in depth in the literature on household CO2 emissions. Using a representative UK expenditure survey, this paper compares how household characteristics like income, household size, education, gender, worklessness and rural or urban location differ in their association with all three areas as well as total emissions. We find that these associations vary considerably across emission domains. In particular, whilst all types of emissions rise with income, low income, workless and elderly households are more likely to have high emissions from home energy than from other domains, suggesting that they may be less affected by carbon taxes on transport or total emissions. This demonstrates that fairness implications related to mitigation policies need to be examined for separate emission domains. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.