Local air pollution and global climate change taxes: a distributional analysis for the case of Spain

Garcia-Muros, Xaquín; Burguillo, Mercedes; González-Eguino, Mikel; Romero-Jordán, Desiderio

doi:10.1080/09640568.2016.1159951

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“…In the Spanish case, the empirical literature on the effects of green tax reforms is sparse. It focuses on first-and second-generation reforms, within a neutral tax revenue setting and compensations on social security levies [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65], VAT [66], or other alternatives [67][68][69]. In general, and in line with the international empirical literature, results show that these reforms could reduce energy consumption and emissions without a significant macroeconomic impact.…”

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confidence: 93%

New Green Tax Reforms: Ex-Ante Assessments for Spain

2019

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The great recession brought an increased need for public revenues and generated distributive concerns across many countries. This has led to a new generation of green tax reforms characterized by the use of markedly heterogeneous proposals that, overall, share a more flexible use of tax receipts adapted to the new economic environment. This article explores the possibilities of implementing this new generation of green tax reforms in Spain. It analyzes the impact of such reforms on energy demand, emissions, public revenues and income distribution from taxing various energy-related environmental damages and by considering two alternative uses for the tax receipts: fiscal consolidation and funding the costs of renewable-energy support schemes.

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2019

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“…La explicación de este efecto hay que buscarla en los patrones de consumo de los hogares españoles recogidos en la Figura 6 (ver García-Muros et al, 2016). El consumo eléctrico representa una mayor proporción del gasto en los hogares de menor renta.…”

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Análisis de impacto de alternativas para la financiación de energías renovables en España

González-Eguino¹,

Garcia-Muros²,

Arto³

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Este artículo analiza el impacto económico, social y ambiental de varios mecanismos de financiación de los costes regulados de las energías renovables en el sector eléctrico (RECORE) en España. Los escenarios analizados, alternativos al sistema actual, en el que los costes se trasladan de forma íntegra a la factura eléctrica de los consumidores finales, son los siguientes: financiación a través de los Presupuestos Generales del Estado (escenario PGE), financiación mediante un impuesto proporcional al consumo final de energía (escenario Energía) y financiación mediante un impuesto al CO2 en los sectores difusos (escenario CO2). El estudio utiliza un modelo de equilibrio general computable (CGE) y un modelo de micro-simulación que incluye información detallada de los 22.000 hogares incluidos en la Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares. Los resultados muestran que el impacto a nivel macroeconómico es positivo pero muy reducido para todos los escenarios analizados y que los cambios a nivel sectorial o en las emisiones dependen notablemente del escenario elegido. Todos los escenarios favorecen a los hogares de renta baja ya que su gasto en electricidad supone un porcentaje relativamente mayor sobre su renta. Aunque ninguna alternativa es mejor en todas las dimensiones analizadas, los impuestos sobre la energía o CO2 favorecen la transición energética, mientras que la alternativa PGE genera efectosdistributivos más progresivos.

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“…The first requirement is related to the subject of the policies (requirement 3.1). A policy can be designed to target either all actors simultaneously (García‐Muros et al, 2017) or only some specific actors (Fell & Linn, 2013; Mérel & Wimberger, 2012). From a justice point of view, as is the case in the broader climate justice discussion (Grasso, 2010), it is imperative to treat each actor differently based on his/her capability and vulnerability, and (historical) injustices among them.…”

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Enabling assessment of distributive justice through models for climate change planning: A review of recent advances and a research agenda

Jafino

Kwakkel

Taebi

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped for aiding questions related to fairness of adaptation and mitigation strategies, because they often disregard distributional outcomes. When evaluating policies using such models, the costs and benefits are typically aggregated across all actors in the system, and over the entire planning horizon. While a policy may be beneficial when considering the aggregate outcome, it can be harmful to some people, somewhere, at some point in time. The practice of aggregating over all actors and over time thus gives rise to problems of justice; it could also exacerbate existing injustices. While the literature discusses some of these injustices in ad‐hoc and case specific manner, a systematic approach for considering distributive justice in model‐based climate change planning is lacking. This study aims to fill this gap by proposing 11 requirements that an Integrated Assessment Model should meet in order to enable the assessment of distributive justice in climate mitigation and adaptation policies. We derive the requirements from various ethical imperatives stemming from the theory of distributive justice. More specifically, we consider both intra‐generational (among people within one generation) and intergenerational (between generations) distributive justice. We investigate to what extent the 11 requirements are being met in recent model‐based climate planning studies, and highlight several directions for future research to advance the accounting for distributive justice in model‐based support for climate change planning. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice

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Local air pollution and global climate change taxes: a distributional analysis for the case of Spain

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

New Green Tax Reforms: Ex-Ante Assessments for Spain

New Green Tax Reforms: Ex-Ante Assessments for Spain

Análisis de impacto de alternativas para la financiación de energías renovables en España

Enabling assessment of distributive justice through models for climate change planning: A review of recent advances and a research agenda

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