Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access

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Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications and transport. In this way, emission pricing could promote sustainable socio-economic development by safeguarding the stability of natural systems which constitute the material basis of economies while at the same time providing public goods that are essential for human well- being. An analysis of several climate scenarios with different stabilization targets and technological assumptions reveals that emission pricing has a substantial potential to close existing access gaps.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 94.2015

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Demand and Supply; Prices ; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
• Subject: Carbon Pricing ; Infrastructure ; Economic Development

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jakob, Michael ; Chen, Claudine ; Fuß, Sabine ; Marxen, Annika ; Rao, Narasimha D. ; Edenhofer, Ottmar
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/130273
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET