DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1091-6
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84901237165
论文题名: Do individuals care about fairness in burden sharing for climate change mitigation? Evidence from a lab experiment
作者: Gampfer R.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2014
卷: 124, 期: 2018-01-02 起始页码: 65
结束页码: 77
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Experiments
; Public policy
; Taxation
; Climate change mitigation
; Cost distribution
; Domestic policies
; Historical emissions
; International climate agreements
; Laboratory experiments
; Relative contribution
; Treatment conditions
; Climate change
; carbon emission
; environmental policy
; global climate
; policy implementation
; state role
英文摘要: One of the reasons for deadlock in global climate policy is countries' disagreement on how to share the mitigation burden. Normative theory suggests various fairness criteria for structuring burden sharing, most prominently, historical responsibility for emissions, economic capacity, and vulnerability to climate change. Governments have taken up these criteria in their rhetoric at UNFCCC negotiations. I examine whether normative criteria influence individual burden sharing preferences. This bottom-up perspective is important for two reasons. First, it is unknown if governments' fairness rhetoric matches citizens' actual preferences. Second, international climate agreements directly affect individuals through domestic policy measures (e.g. energy taxes), and therefore require domestic public support for successful implementation. I conducted two laboratory experiments where participants have to agree on how to share climate change mitigation costs in an ultimatum game. Treatment conditions include differences between proposer and responder in capacity, vulnerability (experiment 1), and historical emissions (experiment 2). Historical emissions are endogenously determined in a prior game. Capacity inequality strongly affects burden sharing, with richer players ending up paying more, and poorer players less. Vulnerability differences reduce the influence of fairness, leading to suggested cost distributions more unfavorable to vulnerable players. However, vulnerable responders still reject many "unfair" offers. Differences in historical responsibility result in cost distributions strongly correlated with players' relative contributions to climate change. The results suggest that more nuanced consideration of fairness criteria in burden sharing could make ambitious climate agreements more acceptable for reluctant countries and their citizens. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84880
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Center for Comparative and International Studies and Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Haldeneggsteig 4, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Recommended Citation:
Gampfer R.. Do individuals care about fairness in burden sharing for climate change mitigation? Evidence from a lab experiment[J]. Climatic Change,2014-01-01,124(2018-01-02)