Willingness to pay for burden sharing and cost distribution of climate mitigation policies

What is it about?

Public acceptability of climate policies is examined through estimation of willingness to pay of people for various attributes of this policies, including how financial burden could be shared among the EU Member States and how the cost might be distributed among people withina country. We elicit preferences for the Czechs, the Poles and Brits. Preferences of latent classess are analysed.

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Why is it important?

There is a quite strong reluctance among policy makers to implement climate mitigation policies. Knowing public preferences and hence social willingness to pay for how such policies might look like may reduce this reluctance. We analyes acceptability of different emission reduction targets and for two key attributes.