DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.937389
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85028198649
论文题名: Firm responses to a carbon price: corporate decision making under British Columbia's carbon tax
作者: Bumpus A ; G
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2015
卷: 15, 期: 4 起始页码: 475
结束页码: 493
语种: 英语
英文关键词: business strategy
; carbon pricing
; climate change mitigation
; low-carbon society
; multi-level governance
Scopus关键词: carbon emission
; climate change
; corporate strategy
; decision making
; emission control
; environmental economics
; environmental policy
; governance approach
; industrial emission
; macroeconomics
; pollution tax
; pricing policy
; British Columbia
; Canada
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: Top-down economic approaches theoretically show that placing a price on carbon can reduce emissions. Responses by firms to these policies, however, are less well understood and are critical for understanding the effectiveness of price-based carbon policy. This article provides an analysis of firm-level responses to the carbon tax in British Columbia (BC) through empirical research of grey literature, industry participation, and interviews with executives of major emitting firms in BC. The article highlights the empirical responses to the tax by firms, who experience difficulty in making low-carbon changes in response to fluctuating commodity prices, the low certainty of climate policy over temporal and spatial scales, and the political economy of implementing regional climate policy. It also highlights the importance of understanding firm-level responses as a complementary approach to macro-economic policy making on carbon pricing. The article shows the importance of engaging decision makers in corporations to understand how carbon is governed in light of emerging climate policy. Policy relevance This article is relevant to policy makers implementing carbon-pricing initiatives by illustrating the need to complement macroeconomic models with firm-level response analysis. It also demonstrates the key concerns of executives in a resource extractive economy and the ability of a carbon price, and the need for complementary technology funds and policy, to affect change in industrial emissions. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80420
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作者单位: ISIS, Sauder School of Business, University of British ColumbiaBC, Canada; School of Geography, University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Bumpus A,G. Firm responses to a carbon price: corporate decision making under British Columbia's carbon tax[J]. Climate Policy,2015-01-01,15(4)