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Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access

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  • Michael Jakob

    (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Chang and Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research)

  • Claudine Chen

    (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change)

  • Sabine Fuss

    (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change)

  • Annika Marxen

    (Technical University Berlin and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change)

  • Narasimha Rao

    (International Institute of Systems Analysis)

  • Ottmar Edenhofer

    (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research and Technical University Berlin)

Abstract

Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications and transport. In this way, emission pricing could promote sustainable socio-economic development by safeguarding the stability of natural systems which constitute the material basis of economies while at the same time providing public goods that are essential for human well- being. An analysis of several climate scenarios with different stabilization targets and technological assumptions reveals that emission pricing has a substantial potential to close existing access gaps.

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  • Michael Jakob & Claudine Chen & Sabine Fuss & Annika Marxen & Narasimha Rao & Ottmar Edenhofer, 2015. "Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access," Working Papers 2015.94, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
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    • Q31 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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