Can climate change policies be fair? A workshop on survey-based analysis of household CO2 emissions Event
- Time:
- 10:15 - 15:00
- Date:
- 5 July 2012
- Venue:
- Royal Statistical Society 12 Errol Street London EC1Y 8LX
For more information regarding this event, please email m.buechs@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Royal Statistical Society
Climate scientists present ever more stark diagnoses of planetary imbalance, increasing calls for emissions reduction policies. A key social research question is whether those policies will hit poorer households harder, or whether they can be designed to soften the impact on the disadvantaged. The workshop explores this question and related analytical issues. It focusses on the use of national scale consumption surveys to explore the distribution of CO2 emissions and effects of policies. Are the data up to the task? Which household characteristics are related to high emissions? Who are likely winners and losers from different policies?
Programme
10.15 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome and introduction
Part 1: Are the data up to the task? Estimating CO2 emissions from expenditure data
10.40 Using the Living Cost and Food Survey to estimate household CO2 emissions – Milena Büchs, University of Southampton
11.00 Practices by proxy: climate, consumption and water – Ben Anderson, University of Essex
11.20 Discussion
11.40 Comfort break
Part 2: The distribution of household CO2 emissions
11.50
Household characteristics and CO2 emissions – who emits most? - Sylke V. Schnepf, University of Southampton
12.10 Carbon mitigation policies, distributional dilemmas and social policies – Ian Gough, London School of Economics
12.30 Discussion
1.00 Lunch
Part 3: Can climate policies be fair?
2.00
Distributional impacts of climate change mitigation policies – comparing different areas of emissions – Nicholas Bardsley, University of Reading
2.20 Using the LCF to model the distributional impacts of UK climate change policy – Ian Preston, Centre for Sustainable Energy
2.40 Discussion and conclusions
3.00 Networking and coffee/tea/cakes