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Mark Sommer, Kurt Kratena
The Carbon Footprint of European Households and Income Distribution. WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 113
WWWforEurope: Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe, March 2016, 41 pages
Commissioned by: AK für Wien – Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH – Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research – OeAD-GmbH – European Commission, Framework Programme
Study by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research
This paper calculates the CO2 equivalents footprint of private consumption in the EU 27 by five groups of household income, using a fully fledged macroeconomic input-output model covering 59 industries and five groups of household income for the EU 27. Due to macroeconomic feedback mechanisms, this methodology not only takes into account intermediate demand induced by the demand of a household group, but also private consumption induced in the other household groups, mpacts on other endogenous final demand components, and negative feedback effects due to output price effects of household demand. Direct household emissions from household energy consumption are taken into account in a non-linear specification. Emissions embodied in imports are calculated using the results of a static MRIO (Multi-Regional Input-Output) model. The footprint is calculated separately for the consumption vector of each of the five income groups. The simulation results yield an income elasticity of direct and indirect emissions at each income level that takes all macroeconomic feedbacks of consumption into account and differs from the ceteris paribus emission elasticity in the literature. The results further reveal that a small structural Kuznet effect exists.
Keywords:TP_Nachhaltigkeit_Nachhaltigkeit, TP_GrueneTransformation
Research group:Climate, Environmental and Resource Economics
Language:English