TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of a carbon tax implementation on non-CO2 gas emissions
T2 - the case of Japan
AU - Mortha, Aline
AU - Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad
AU - Vo, Xuan Vinh
N1 - Funding Information:
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary acknowledges the financial support of the JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists No.19K13742 and Grant-in-Aid for Excellent Young Researcher of the Ministry of Education of Japan (MEXT). The research was supported by the Grant-in-Aid of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City?UEH, Viet Nam.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Carbon taxation affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through the price of fossil fuels, and hence can also affect emissions of air pollutants. Based on this fact, this study aims at exploring the impact of the carbon tax in Japan on various pollutants’ emissions, using a regression-based approach. The main contribution of this study is to assess the impact of a tax that is mainly directed at cutting CO2, on other gases, namely sulphur dioxide (SO2), suspended particulate matter (SPM), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxide (NOX), as well as analyzing the impact of this tax on different sectors of the Japanese economy. Our results imply that the introduction of the carbon tax in Japan effectively reduced non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs) and pollutants, even when controlling for demographic and economic variables. The results of this study can be explained by a partial decoupling of fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions, possibly through investment in anti-pollution measures.
AB - Carbon taxation affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through the price of fossil fuels, and hence can also affect emissions of air pollutants. Based on this fact, this study aims at exploring the impact of the carbon tax in Japan on various pollutants’ emissions, using a regression-based approach. The main contribution of this study is to assess the impact of a tax that is mainly directed at cutting CO2, on other gases, namely sulphur dioxide (SO2), suspended particulate matter (SPM), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxide (NOX), as well as analyzing the impact of this tax on different sectors of the Japanese economy. Our results imply that the introduction of the carbon tax in Japan effectively reduced non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs) and pollutants, even when controlling for demographic and economic variables. The results of this study can be explained by a partial decoupling of fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions, possibly through investment in anti-pollution measures.
KW - Carbon tax
KW - Japan
KW - anthropogenic emissions
KW - greenhouse gases
KW - pollution control
KW - prefectural analysis
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U2 - 10.1080/14486563.2021.1991498
DO - 10.1080/14486563.2021.1991498
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118308383
SN - 1448-6563
VL - 28
SP - 355
EP - 372
JO - Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
JF - Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
IS - 4
ER -