scholarly journals Klimaschutz auf Kosten der Armen? Vorschläge für eine markt- und sozialverträgliche Umsetzung von CO2-Steuern und des Emissionshandels

ORDO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (70) ◽  
pp. 125-165
Author(s):  
Stephan Wolf ◽  
Nils Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Eu Ets ◽  

ZusammenfassungMit diesem Beitrag schlagen wir einen zweistufigen Weg zu einer effektiven deutschen Klimapolitik vor. Die erste Stufe orientiert sich an der Schweizer CO2-Abgabe: Ab 2020 soll der Kohlendioxidausstoß im privaten Heizenergie- und Verkehrsbereich besteuert werden, da beide Sektoren nicht im EU-Emissionshandel erfasst werden. Wie im Schweizer Modell fließt das Steueraufkommen durch Transfers und Investitionen an die Bevölkerung zurück. Allerdings soll die direkte Rückerstattung auf die Hälfte der Steuereinnahmen beschränkt und auf das einkommensschwächste Drittel der Haushalte konzentriert werden. Die andere Hälfte soll zur Förderung des ländlichen ÖPNV und zur energetischen Sanierung von Mietshäusern eingesetzt werden. Damit wird Klimaschutz – ein Gebot intergenerationeller Gerechtigkeit – im Sinne einer Sozialen Marktwirtschaft umgesetzt: Der Klimaschutzbeitrag jedes Einzelnen orientiert sich auch an Leistungsfähigkeit und Bedürftigkeit. Ab 2030 sollte der zweite Schritt unseres Ansatzes einsetzen und das Steuermodell sukzessive in einen verbraucherbasierten Emissionshandel überführt werden. Ein funktionierendes Personal Carbon Trading System ist allerding technisch und rechtlich komplexer als eine CO2-Steuer. Die sofortige Umsetzung von Stufe eins schafft das nötige Zeitfenster für die Vorbereitung eines Zertifikatesystems für Heizenergie und Mobilität. Die oft angeführten Nachteile eines solchen Systems – hohe Transaktions- und Administrationskosten – halten wir aufgrund der Fortschritte in der Informationstechnologie bereits heute für händelbar. Dafür hätte ein solches System gegenüber einer Steuer folgende Vorteile: Es ist mit dem EU-ETS kompatibel, Emissionsziele werden sicher erreicht und jeder Verbraucher erkennt direkt, für welche CO2-Emissionen er persönlich verantwortlich ist.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 2094-2101
Author(s):  
Long Xi Han ◽  
Jia Jia Zhai ◽  
Lin Zhang

The opportunities and challenges in the field of Chinese renewable energy were analyzed through the impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction trade, especially CDM on Chinese renewable energy, combined with the enhancement of awareness of voluntary emission reduction, relationship between emission reduction trade and renewable energy, changes in the international trade environment and the rise of the domestic trading system. It is suggested that the renewable energy industry integrates with GHG emission reduction trading system in China and explores the huge double benefit of emission reduction and income increase with market means, providing a reference for the smooth implementation of nationwide CN ETS including varies industries in the carbon trading market in the future, and striving for the speaking right for China to set the marketing price of international GHG emission reduction trading in the future.


2013 ◽  
Vol 411-414 ◽  
pp. 2505-2510
Author(s):  
Qi Wei ◽  
Man Man Tian

Along with the rapid development of economy, China has become the leading emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Carbon emissions trading system is an important tool and means to response to climate change effectively and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At present, Chinese carbon trading market is still in its infancy, and there are many deficiencies: legal system is imperfect and carbon source monitoring regulation is lax, the variety of trading is single, China does not have pricing power of carbon emissions and the layouts of trading platform are not reasonable. Through using the implementation experience of the EU emissions trading system, we construct Chinese carbon trading mechanism based on total control principle: voluntary trading market should be carried out fist and mandatory transaction will be implemented when market condition is sufficient. According to the quotas allocation from free to auction, mandatory transaction shall be implemented in there stages.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertil Kapff

Fuel emissions in the heating and transport sectors will be covered by a national emissions trading system in Germany from 2021. The European certificate trading system EU ETS will also be further tightened for the fourth trading phase from 2021 to 2030. Under unknown framework conditions and uncertainty regarding the development of certificate prices, the actors involved will have to make a variety of decisions: How many emission rights are to be acquired and when? Are investments in new technologies or fuels worthwhile? This laboratory experiment on emissions trading examined which patterns and strategies can be identified in the individual decision-making behaviour of the actors. The paper was awarded the Dr. Tyczka Energy Prize in 2018.


2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4496-4503
Author(s):  
Xiao Jiang Huo ◽  
Hao Cheng ◽  
Yu Hong Wan ◽  
Zhong Jing Liu ◽  
Yun Feng Luo

This paper explores the risk decision issue of the emission/right trading in power enterprises according to the various possible situations which may exist in the carbon trading system. Firstly, the emission environment is divided into three separate Cases and two combination (hybrid) Cases are virtualized. Secondly, the advantages and disadvantages for both the enterprises and the country are analyzed under the existing separate situation and the risk decision-making framework of the emission/right trading is established for the power generation companies. Finally, a trading risk decision model is constructed in the combination Cases by using the financial asset portfolio theory and the effective frontier for the model is given. The model is broad and simple in application scope. It has some theoretical meanings and practical values. And it provides the operational space for the risk decision of the power enterprises.


2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma C. Suddick ◽  
Moffatt K. Ngugi ◽  
Keith Paustian ◽  
Johan Six

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-120
Author(s):  
A. M. Heiaas

Over the past 30 years, the aviation industry has seen record-breaking growth whilst enjoying exemptions from most taxes and VAT charges. Currently, the aviation sector is considered one of the fastest-growing greenhouse gas emissions sources. Attempting to reduce these emissions in a cost-effective manner, the EU decided in 2012 to include all flights entering and leaving the EU in their Emission Trading System (EU ETS). It was quickly changed to only include travel within the EU. Nevertheless, as the largest cap-and-trade system in the world, the purpose of the EU ETS is to control the growth of emissions by issuing pollution permit rights. The idea is that by setting an emission ceiling and allowing trade between sectors, emission abatement will happen where it is cheapest and easiest to do. This paper explores whether the EU ETS succeeded in reducing the aviation sector emissions over the period 2012–2018 by employing a General Synthetic Control model to estimate a counterfactual scenario. When using jet fuel consumption as a proxy for emissions, the results indicate that on average the EU ETS led to a 10 per cent increase in jet fuel consumption relative to a scenario where it was not implemented. However, the paper fails to conclude a causal relationship between EU ETS and jet fuel consumption due to drawbacks with the data. Nevertheless, it provides a starting point for future ex-post research concerned with aviation and carbon pricing in the European market.


2015 ◽  
Vol 518 ◽  
pp. 281-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Filgueira ◽  
CJ Byron ◽  
LA Comeau ◽  
B Costa-Pierce ◽  
PJ Cranford ◽  
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