Alternative Australian climate change plans : the public's views
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2010
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Carson, R.T.
Louviere, J.J.
Wei, E.
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Energy Policy, 2010; 38(2):902-911
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Climate change has come to the forefront of Australian politics and there is now an active on-going policy debate about how to best reach a commonly agreed long term goal. This paper looks at five major dimensions of this debate and constructs policy options based on them. A discrete choice experiment approach was used with a representative sample from a major internet panel provider. Survey respondents made choices between pairs of policy options with different characteristics. They favored policies starting in 2010 rather than 2012, and spending 20% of revenue raised on energy-related R&D. They were almost evenly split on whether the plan should initially exempt the transport sector and two competing approaches that redistribute revenue from the plan, and, they opposed plans giving special treatment to energy-intensive sectors of the economy. A number of other policy relevant questions related to understanding Australian views and knowledge related to climate change also were asked.
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Link to a related website: http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/~rcarson/papers/JEPO3829.pdf, Open Access via Unpaywall
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Copyright 2009 Elsevier