Personal carbon budgets: a PESTLE review
Personal carbon budgets: a PESTLE review
Personal Carbon Budgets (PCBs) are a radical policy innovation that seek to reduce an individual’s carbon consumption. This review identifies three archetypes of PCBs in the current literature; Personal Carbon Trading, Carbon Tax and Carbon Labelling. We theorised that carbon trading could affect equity and allow quality of life and consumption to be driven by income rather than needs. We, therefore, developed a new model (Personal Carbon Allowance with no trading) to compare to existing archetypes. A PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental) framework was applied to each archetype to analyse and compare their costs and benefits and to critically evaluate and identify which model may be the most appropriate to reduce emissions severely but equitably. We conclude that the only model that can achieve this is our proposed Personal Carbon Allowance (PCA) model with no trading. PCA has a hard cap on emissions allowing for controllable severe cuts to emissions, and the lack of trading would prohibit those with wealth from continuing high-consumption lifestyles at the expense of those with lower incomes.
carbon budget, carbon footprint, sustainability, PESTLE, carbon
Brock, Alice
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Kemp, Simon
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Williams, Ian
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August 2022
Brock, Alice
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Kemp, Simon
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Williams, Ian
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Brock, Alice, Kemp, Simon and Williams, Ian
(2022)
Personal carbon budgets: a PESTLE review.
Sustainability, 14 (15), [9238].
(doi:10.3390/su14159238).
Abstract
Personal Carbon Budgets (PCBs) are a radical policy innovation that seek to reduce an individual’s carbon consumption. This review identifies three archetypes of PCBs in the current literature; Personal Carbon Trading, Carbon Tax and Carbon Labelling. We theorised that carbon trading could affect equity and allow quality of life and consumption to be driven by income rather than needs. We, therefore, developed a new model (Personal Carbon Allowance with no trading) to compare to existing archetypes. A PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental) framework was applied to each archetype to analyse and compare their costs and benefits and to critically evaluate and identify which model may be the most appropriate to reduce emissions severely but equitably. We conclude that the only model that can achieve this is our proposed Personal Carbon Allowance (PCA) model with no trading. PCA has a hard cap on emissions allowing for controllable severe cuts to emissions, and the lack of trading would prohibit those with wealth from continuing high-consumption lifestyles at the expense of those with lower incomes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 26 July 2022
Published date: August 2022
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This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council via a studentship through the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership, grant number 2342054. The APC was funded by The University of Southampton.
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© 2022 by the authors.
Keywords:
carbon budget, carbon footprint, sustainability, PESTLE, carbon
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ISSN: 2071-1050
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