IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/jenpmg/v66y2023i13p2623-2639.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The unlikely Mexican carbon tax—a question of economic-environmental synergies?

Author

Listed:
  • Jakob Skovgaard
  • Sofía Sacks Ferrari

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Jakob Skovgaard & Sofía Sacks Ferrari, 2023. "The unlikely Mexican carbon tax—a question of economic-environmental synergies?," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(13), pages 2623-2639, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:66:y:2023:i:13:p:2623-2639
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2081136
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09640568.2022.2081136
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09640568.2022.2081136?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:66:y:2023:i:13:p:2623-2639. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CJEP20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.