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Getting Around the Issue of the “Carbon Tax”

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  • Romane Rozencwajg

    (CRESPPA - Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris - UP8 - Université Paris 8 - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Bénédicte Apouey

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

  • Maxime Gaborit

  • Laurent Jeanpierre

    (Equipe MAD - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072 - GREYC - Groupe de Recherche en Informatique, Image et Instrumentation de Caen - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - ENSICAEN - École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen - NU - Normandie Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-François Laslier

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

Abstract

When thinking about the genesis of the Citizens' Convention for Climate, one must inevitably think of its connection to the "Gilets jaunes" social movement, which was triggered in October 2018 by a rejection of the rise in fuel tax that the French government were intending to bring in. This chapter describes and analyzes the shift in the citizens' stance on taxing fuel. It shows how the members rapidly turned against the idea of a carbon tax and developed a range of different measures to limit vehicular carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. In parallel to their examination of the carbon tax, the citizens mused about the notion of social justice, which was part of the official mandate. After an initial rejection of the idea of carbon taxation, the citizens went in search of substitute measures, so the matter of taxation was not off the table.

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  • Romane Rozencwajg & Bénédicte Apouey & Maxime Gaborit & Laurent Jeanpierre & Jean-François Laslier, 2025. "Getting Around the Issue of the “Carbon Tax”," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-05340254, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-05340254
    DOI: 10.1002/9781394388325.ch11
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