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The French Carbon Tax: Autopsy of an ambition

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  • Eloi Laurent

    (OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po)

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The French carbon tax was to become in 2010 the centerpiece of the country's new climate change mitigation strategy. After a heated public debate, the Constitutional Council, France's higher constitutional law body, censored the executive's proposal, which in turn, in the aftermath of a severe electoral defeat, announced the indefinite postponement of the carbon tax. This article tries to make sense of this important sequence in French contemporary public life by reviewing its different facets: environmental economics, political economy, constitutional law, and finally politics.

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  • Eloi Laurent, 2010. "The French Carbon Tax: Autopsy of an ambition," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03415999, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:spmain:hal-03415999
    DOI: 10.3167/fpcs.2010.280307
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03415999
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    1. Eloi Laurent, 2015. "Social-Ecology : exploring the missing link in sustainable development," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-01136326, HAL.
    2. Bourgeois, Cyril & Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan & Quirion, Philippe, 2021. "Lump-sum vs. energy-efficiency subsidy recycling of carbon tax revenue in the residential sector: A French assessment," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
    3. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/7q6sh3g50e9b088rr3ms9s3j8a is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Eloi Laurent, 2014. "Inequality as pollution, pollution as inequality," Working Papers hal-01070526, HAL.
    5. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/f6h8764enu2lskk9p4a36i6c0 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Eloi Laurent, 2014. "Inequality as pollution, pollution as inequality : The social-ecological nexus," Sciences Po publications info:hdl:2441/f6h8764enu2, Sciences Po.

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