Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare

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Implementation strategy and emission reduction effectiveness of carbon cap-and-trade in heterogeneous enterprises

“…Since then, many scholars have been attracted to this field. Much research has been done on macro areas, such as the comparison of different policies (e.g., carbon cap, carbon cap and offset, carbon cap and trade, and carbon taxes) (Hahn, 1984;Zhang and Xu, 2013;Konur and Schaefer, 2014;Xu et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Rustico and Dimitrov, 2022), initial allocation of quotas (Hahn, 1984;Elzen et al, 2005;Subramanian et al, 2007;Böhringer et al, 2008;Ye and Linghu, 2015;Yu et al, 2021), the setting of carbon prices (Zhang and Xu, 2013;Chen et al, 2021) and so on. Other research has focused on micro-fields, such as corporate production decision-making (Huang et al, 2013;Zhang and Xu, 2013;Lee and Park, 2020;Qin et al, 2021), technology choice and investment (Huang et al, 2013;Aflaki and Netessine, 2017;Chen et al, 2021;Qin et al, 2021), consumer preferences and their impact on corporate technology choices (Du et al, 2016;Xu et al, 2020;Mei et al, 2021), and so on.…”

“…Based on optimization methods, Huang et al(2013) conducted an economic analysis of carbon capture and storage technologies, and proposed possible directions for the sustainable development of a low-carbon economy and recommendations for corporate technology selection. Rustico and Dimitrov(2022)explored the impact of carbon tax commitments on technology choices and social welfare, and found that commitments will promote companies to choose green technologies and bring better social welfare, while the commitments are less sensitive to small deviations in the optimal tax level. This paper focuses on the dynamic joint decision-making of government and enterprises, and considers the social welfare, responsibility sharing and utility brought by the mechanism.…”

“…Most emission reduction policies can be classified as either administrative or market mechanisms. The corresponding specific measures are carbon quotas and carbon taxes (Zhang and Xu, 2013;Xu et al, 2020;Rustico and Dimitrov, 2022). Carbon quotas take total emissions as the management object, which is conducive to deterministically reducing emissions and achieving phased emission targets.…”

Integrating IPAT and CLUMondo Models to Assess the Impact of Carbon Peak on Land Use

“…Energy utilization is dominated by enterprises, which is a major factor affecting carbon emissions. However, enterprises work to maximize their interests, and tend to disregard carbon target constraints on energy-intensive production [9][10][11]. Instead of pursuing sustainable production to increase their income, they may work against carbon emissions reduction targets [12][13][14].…”

Sustainability in Numbers by Data Analytics

“…These include the following: SDGs; Paris Agreement and nationally determined contributions; circular economy and minimizing circularity gap as well as related terms such as closing the waste loop, end-of-life management of waste, ban on single-use plastics, ban on export of solid waste, design out waste, emissions reduction targets, recycling targets, etc. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]; sustainability gap [2]; energy efficiency and more renewable energy in the energy mix [22][23][24]; water efficiency [25,26]; materials efficiency [27,28]; supply chain resilience and efficiency [29][30][31][32][33][34][35]; decarbonization efforts including low-carbon economy, carbon trading, low-carbon materials, low-carbon products, low-carbon services, green economy, carbon footprint reporting carbon tax [36][37][38][39]; green financing and related terminologies such as extended produced responsibility (EPR), environmental product declarations (EPD), energy efficiency targets, eco-design, eco-labeling, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) reporting, and packaging agreement [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; lifecycle assessment and related terms such as lifecycle costing and lifecycle engineering [48][49][50][51]; renewable and sustainable materials; electronic waste (E-waste); design for recyclin...…”