IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/cjuesx/v01y2013i01ns2345748113500073.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Political Economy of Carbon Tax: International Practice and the Australian Model

Author

Listed:
  • Alex LO

    (Griffith School of Environment, Room 3.02, Building G31, Gold Coast campus, Griffith University, Queensland 4222, Australia)

Abstract

Carbon taxes create incentives for controlling greenhouse gases by putting a price on these emissions. In theory major carbon emitters would pay more under an effective carbon tax. In practice political considerations often dominate and consequently compromise effectiveness in emissions mitigation. Australia's carbon pricing mechanism is a recent example. It involves the use of a fixed-price instrument that resembles a carbon tax and will eventually turn into an emission trading scheme and enable price fluctuation. The policy design is however questionable for overcompensating big polluters and legitimizing the failure to curb emissions domestically. This paper offers a review of the development of carbon tax policies in various national contexts with a focus on Australia. Lessons from the international practices could provide a useful reference for China to advance its timely commitment to establishing a carbon pricing system.

Suggested Citation

  • Alex LO, 2013. "The Political Economy of Carbon Tax: International Practice and the Australian Model," Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 1(01), pages 1-15.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:cjuesx:v:01:y:2013:i:01:n:s2345748113500073
    DOI: 10.1142/S2345748113500073
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2345748113500073
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S2345748113500073?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.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Martin Rabbia, 2023. "Why did Argentina and Uruguay decide to pursue a carbon tax? Fiscal reforms and explicit carbon prices," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 40(2), pages 230-259, March.
    2. Rakhmindyarto, Rakhmindyarto & Setyawan, Dhani, 2020. "Understanding the political challenges of introducing a carbon tax in Indonesia," MPRA Paper 111586, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 02 Aug 2020.

    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:wsi:cjuesx:v:01:y:2013:i:01:n:s2345748113500073. 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: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/cjues/cjues.shtml .

    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.