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De quelques paradoxes autour de la fixation d'une taxe internationale sur le carbone

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  • Jean-Charles Hourcade
  • Khalil Helioui
  • Laurent Gilotte

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[eng] Some paradoxical issues about negociating an international carbon tax. . To date, debates on economic incentives apt to coordonate Greenhouse Gases emissions abatement policies focused mainly on an international uniform carbon tax and this for two type of reasons : the classical result of the unicity of a Pigouvian tax, the simplicity of its implementation. This paper presents a theoretical model which captures the equity-efficiency issues involved in these debates. It demonstrates that an efficient allocation of the abatement efforts will be achieved by personalised taxes or by uniform tax applied together with compensations across countries. A numerical exercise which accounts for the controversies about many parameters underlying the negotiation helps deriving some policy-oriented conclusions for the implementation of the Berlin Mandate, and the follow-up of Kyoto Agreement. [fre] De quelques paradoxes autour de la fixation d'une taxe internationale sur le carbone. . Les débats sur les outils économiques de coordination internationale des politiques climatiques se sont jusqu'ici focalisés sur une taxation uniforme des émissions de gaz à effet de serre en s'appuyant sur le résultat d'unicité de la taxe pigouvienne et sur sa simplicité de mise en œuvre. Nous présentons ici un modèle intégrant les enjeux équité-efficacité à considérer dans la prise de décision. Nous montrons qu'une allocation efficace des efforts supposerait soit un système de taxes différenciées soit une taxe uniforme accompagnée de compensations entre pays. Une simulation numérique qui rend compte du caractère très controversé de certains paramètres centraux des négociations permet de tirer quelques conséquen­ces opérationnelles pour l'application du «Mandat de Berlin » et le suivi de la conférence de Kyoto.

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  • Jean-Charles Hourcade & Khalil Helioui & Laurent Gilotte, 1997. "De quelques paradoxes autour de la fixation d'une taxe internationale sur le carbone," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 48(6), pages 1509-1528.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_1997_num_48_6_409951
    DOI: 10.3406/reco.1997.409951
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