RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Carbon footprint, municipality size and rurality in Spain: Inequality and carbon taxation
A1 Tomás, Manuel
A1 López, Luis Antonio
A1 Monsalve, Fabio
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Energía
K1 Carbon footprint
K1 Input-output analysis
K1 Inequality
K1 Carbon pricing
K1 Climate change
K1 5902.08 Política del Medio Ambiente
K1 5312.05 Energía
AB By using an environmentally extended multi-regional input-output model, this paper analyses theSpanish households’ carbon footprint for the 2008e2017 period considering the municipality size as wellas the urban or rural residential zone where families live. Results show that, on a per capita basis, inhabitants of medium-large municipalities emit fewer carbon emissions than those settled in small ones(between 0.34 and 0.54 tCO2/cap depending on the year studied). This carbon unbalance is mainlyexplained by the higher direct carbon footprints of dwellers who reside in small municipalities and, inspecial, in rural zones. Furthermore, applying inequality measures through a consumption-based carbonfootprint Gini coefficient, we show that both income and CO2 emissions inequality are lower in smallmunicipalities. In the light of the findings, in Spain, the application of a carbon pricing on direct andindirect carbon footprints will be regressive, disproportionally affecting people of small municipalitiesand rural areas. Accordingly, household carbon inequalities must be contemplated to avoid poorlydesigned climate change mitigation policies.
PB Elsevier
SN 0959-6526
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67425
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67425
LA spa
NO Journal of Cleaner Production, Mayo 2020, n. 266
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-jun-2024