Equity preferences and abatement cost sharing in international environmental agreements
- This paper examines empirically the importance of equity preferences for the formation of international environmen- tal agreements (IEA) for transboundary pollution control. Although it has been shown theoretically that the existence of equity preferences among countries considering an IEA increases the chances for formation and stability of a coali- tion, empirical assessments of such preferences have been limited to climate change mitigation and single-country studies. We consider the case of marine plastic pollution, of which a large share consists of food and beverage con- tainers, representing a transboundary pollution control problem of increasing policy concern, with properties that lead to distinct considerations for equity and the sharing of abatement costs. We employ a coordinated choice experi- ment in the United Kingdom and United States to assess preferences for abatement-cost allocations in a marine plas- tics IEA. Pairs of cooperating countries and the relative allocation of abatement costs are varied experimentally. Results show systematic aversion to both advantageous and disadvantageous inequality with respect to abatement costs but also that the relative strength of advantageous and dis- advantageous inequality aversion differs across countries. Across both countries, there is evidence that left-leaning voters generally favor more equal international sharing of abatement costs. Differences of these results from the case of greenhouse gas emission reduction, and implications for current efforts to establish a legally binding global treaty on marine plastic pollution, are discussed.
Autor/Autorin: | Tobias BörgerORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:b721-opus4-41760 |
URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajae.12392 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12392 |
Verlag: | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |
Dokumentart: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 14.02.2023 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Hochschulbibliothek HWR Berlin |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 21.02.2023 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | abatement costs; choice experiment; equity preferences; inequality aversion; international environmental agreement |
Ausgabe / Heft: | American Journal of Agricultural Economics |
Seitenzahl: | 26 |
Fachbereiche und Studiengänge: | FB I - Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Open Access Publikationen (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Open Access Publikationen finanziert durch Projekt DEAL: | hybrid |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |