Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal
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Abstract In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US$697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels. Removing fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO 2 emissions and making carbon pricing more effective, but also valuable use government funds. Currently, however, scientific evidence the scale scope public attitudes towards subsidy-removal policies lacking, yet it instrumental gauging political feasibility. Furthermore, previous studies tend to focus in developed world only. Here we present a comparative analysis both taxation subsidy removal, focusing five developing across four continents. It found that (1) removing undesirable than introducing (2) has more-positive removal if optimal saved fiscal revenues specified.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Climate Change
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1758-6798', '1758-678X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01597-5