Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa

Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa

This paper provides recommendations for combining the carbon budget with the carbon tax to support delivery of South Africa’s emissions reduction targets beyond 2020. The analysis involved comparing four categories of policy alignment options, incl...

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Main Author: Partnership for Market Readiness
Format: Technical Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
POLICY INTEGRATION
CARBON TAX
CARBON BUDGETS
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
CARBON TRADING
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/392711506406743392/Integration-of-carbon-tax-and-carbon-budgets-in-South-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28406
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spelling okr-10986-284062021-05-25T09:04:03Z Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa Partnership for Market Readiness POLICY INTEGRATION CARBON TAX CARBON BUDGETS CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION CARBON TRADING This paper provides recommendations for combining the carbon budget with the carbon tax to support delivery of South Africa’s emissions reduction targets beyond 2020. The analysis involved comparing four categories of policy alignment options, including layering, ‘tax enforces budget’ option, hybrid options with trading and differential instruments, across eight core principles such as emissions reduction effectiveness, emissions certainty, cost-effectiveness, polluter pays principle, equitable treatment, distributional issues, feasibility and simplicity, and sensitivity to international competition. 2017-09-26T15:07:34Z 2017-09-26T15:07:34Z 2017-03-01 Technical Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/392711506406743392/Integration-of-carbon-tax-and-carbon-budgets-in-South-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28406 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa South Africa
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en_US
topic POLICY INTEGRATION
CARBON TAX
CARBON BUDGETS
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
CARBON TRADING
spellingShingle POLICY INTEGRATION
CARBON TAX
CARBON BUDGETS
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
CARBON TRADING
Partnership for Market Readiness
Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa
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South Africa
description This paper provides recommendations for combining the carbon budget with the carbon tax to support delivery of South Africa’s emissions reduction targets beyond 2020. The analysis involved comparing four categories of policy alignment options, including layering, ‘tax enforces budget’ option, hybrid options with trading and differential instruments, across eight core principles such as emissions reduction effectiveness, emissions certainty, cost-effectiveness, polluter pays principle, equitable treatment, distributional issues, feasibility and simplicity, and sensitivity to international competition.
format Technical Paper
author Partnership for Market Readiness
author_facet Partnership for Market Readiness
author_sort Partnership for Market Readiness
title Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa
title_short Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa
title_full Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa
title_fullStr Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa
title_full_unstemmed Integration of Carbon Tax and Carbon Budgets in South Africa
title_sort integration of carbon tax and carbon budgets in south africa
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/392711506406743392/Integration-of-carbon-tax-and-carbon-budgets-in-South-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28406
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