Agent-Based Simulation of the Effects of an Environmental Tax Policy on Residential Gas Use and CO2 Emissions:Kanazawa city
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Environmental tax policy is one of the most important government measures for carbon reduction. In this paper, we implement an agent-based simulation approach to simulate the volume of household gas consumption affected by the Japanese “Tax for Global Warming” which is a typical environmental tax policy on gas price. A self-adjustment module is designed to simulate the process of household gas use behavior change according to the gas price that result in change in value of gas consumption. Furthermore, the CO2 emissions reduction is calculated based on the change of gas consumption value. Finally, we discuss based on the simulation results concerns about the effectiveness of “Tax for Global Warming” policy on residential gas use and CO2 emissions by adjusting gas price to affect households’ behavior. Copyright © IJRETR, all rights reserved.
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