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Which measures make sense to change human behavior in favor of climate protection?

  • Environmental policy measures are often aimed at the ratio of environmentally harmful (“brown”) to environmentally friendly (“green”) production within an industry.

  • To achieve such goals, the green sector can be subsidized or the dirty sector taxed.

  • We show that the two policy approaches have different welfare effects in a monopolistic competitive environment, depending on the design of the instrument (ad valorem or standard instrument) and the initial situation (size of the polluting sector).

  • With a strong green policy (a strong reduction in the polluting sector), a tax is the dominant instrument.

  • If the polluting sector is initially large, a subsidy may be a better instrument with moderate policy objectives.

Climate Action

Basic measures that are required in any case to achieve the 1.5°C target, but whose implementation alone does not guarantee that the target will be achieved. Only the concrete design and the extent and type of additional measures determine the possibility of achieving the goal. The clearer and earlier the measures are taken, the more reliable the achievement of goals is realistic.

Sigrid Stagl

Economist with a research focus on sustainable work, ecological macroeconomics, integrated valuation methods and socio-economic theory of action; empirical focus on energy and food. Professor at the Department of Socioeconomics at WU since 2008. Before that, Sigrid Stagl researched and taught at the University of Leeds and University of Sussex (2001-2009). After completing her diploma at WU Vienna, she completed her PhD at the Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, where she was awarded the world's first doctorate in Ecological Economics. For more than a decade she has been involved in the governance of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). At WU she founded the Institute for Ecological Economics. She is currently Co-Head of the Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility at WU Vienna and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Ecological Economics.

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Professor Sigrid Stagl

economist

George Nistl

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Date

27.06.2022
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10:00 - 11:00

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