Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130273 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 94.2015
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications and transport. In this way, emission pricing could promote sustainable socio-economic development by safeguarding the stability of natural systems which constitute the material basis of economies while at the same time providing public goods that are essential for human well- being. An analysis of several climate scenarios with different stabilization targets and technological assumptions reveals that emission pricing has a substantial potential to close existing access gaps.
Subjects: 
Carbon Pricing
Infrastructure
Economic Development
JEL: 
Q31
H54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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