The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium

Personal carbon allowances (PCAs) can complement current carbon pricing policies to achieve the sharp cut in emissions needed to meet the climate targets set by the Paris Agreement. While their effectiveness crucially depends on their social acceptability, there is little evidence on which specific characteristics of their design are preferred by citizens and how these preferences might differ within a society. Our study aims at eliciting preferences for a specific PCA scheme and explores their heterogeneity, using a discrete choice experiment among Belgian citizens and analyzing mixed logit a... Mehr ...