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Session

Climate change mitigation policies
Location: Auditorium K
Session Chair: Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore

Presentation 1

Inequality and adoption of climate mitigation policies

Margherita Bellanca¹, Marinella Davide², Enrica De Cian^3,4

1: Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; 2: Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, Italy; 3: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy; 4: Centro Euro‐Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy

Discussant: Mohamed CHARHBILI (IREGE, Savoie Mont Blanc University)

This paper analyses the influence of income inequality on the adoption of mitigation policies. Despite considerable attention in the literature to the connection between inequality and environmental outcomes, the role of policies remains implicit and has not been singled out. Our study focuses on the national mitigation policies adopted in the G20 countries between 1997 and 2021 as measured by the Climate Policy Database. We examine the impact of average income and inequality on policy adoption by using a Poisson fixed-effects and correlated random-effects regression model. Several measures of inequality are derived from the World Inequality Database to capture various aspects of income distribution. The findings show that the effect of inequality on the application of climate policies depends on the average income level of the country. In richer countries, a decrease in inequality is associated with an increase in the adoption of climate change policies, while in poorer countries a decrease in inequality is associated with a reduction in the adoption of climate change policies. While high levels of inequality have a negative impact on policy implementation in affluent countries, it might have a positive impact in nations with lower income levels. Our findings confirm the existence of a possible trade-off between inequality and environmental protection and provide new insights into its structure.