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New working paper on Personal Carbon Budgeting
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Please find attached a recently published working paper ‘Personal Carbon
Budgeting: What people need to know, learn and have in order to manage and
live within a carbon budget, and the policies that could support them?',
which we hope you will find of interest.
This working paper explores what people may need to know, learn and have if
a Personal Carbon Allowances (PCA) scheme were to be implemented, and
suggests ideas for policies, programmes and initiatives that could support
them. A PCA scheme implies that individuals would have a personal budget of
carbon credits, which they would need to manage in order to stay within its
limits. Thus, this paper looks at the budgeting process from the carbon
account holder’s view point and applies insights from how people budget
under monetary and non-monetary constrains to the study of PCA. It also
highlights related policy design issues.
The paper comprises two sections. The first sets PCA in the policy context
alongside other existing and proposed emissions reduction policies. Next it
explains the mechanisms through which PCA supposes to change energy demand
behaviour and then describes the current discourse surrounding PCA in the
UK. The second section lays out the rational for examining PCA through the
lens of budgeting and points at questions arising from the concept of living
within a carbon budget. It then discusses in detail the prerequisites for
carbon budgeting, which include: setting the budgetary limits; knowing
personalised carbon ‘income’ and ‘expenditure’; having low carbon
alternatives; having the opportunity to perform low carbon choices;
receiving advice and support; and learning how to trade. This is followed by
a short concluding section.
A short version of this working paper (Personal Carbon Budgets Helping
individuals to live in a carbon constrained world) will be published as a
chapter in Ehrhardt-Martinez, K. (ed.) Human Resources for Climate
Solutions: Energy Smart Behaviors, People Centered Policies, and Public
Engagement (tentative title). American Council for an Energy-Efficient
Economy (ACEEE). E-book Due by Nov 2009.
Thank you for your interest in this work.
Yours sincerely
Yael Parag and Deborah Strickland
Oxford University, UK Energy Research Centre
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/downloads/paragstrickland09pcbudget.pdf
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