Policymakers will not accept forceful decarbonisation policies if they lead to visibly increasing inequality within their societies. The distributive effects of

This book builds upon existing literature to simultaneously examine disparities in the distribution of environmental impacts of environmental policy and in the

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious actions in the fight against climate change

"This book contains the proceedings of an NBER conference held in Washington, DC, on May 13-14, 2010"--Page xi.

Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproporti