Low carbon footprint - A consequence of free will or of poverty? The impact of sufficiency orientation and deprivation on individual carbon footprints

IF 9.3 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114367
Abigail Alexander-Haw , Joachim Schleich
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Private households account for at least 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, gaining a better understanding of the drivers behind carbon footprints is highly relevant. Traditionally, carbon footprint levels and material prosperity have been viewed as closely intertwined, with a low carbon footprint even seen as an indication of deprivation. However, a low carbon footprint can also arise from a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle. In our study, based on a 2022 demographically representative survey of the adult population in Germany, we estimate linear and multinomial regression models to investigate the influence of individuals' sufficiency orientation and deprivation on carbon footprints. We examine both the aggregated carbon footprint and its breakdown into specific activities, including space and water heating, electricity consumption, transport, and food. We find that having a higher sufficiency orientation is associated with a lower individual's aggregated carbon footprint and a lower carbon footprint of each specific activity, except space and water heating, ceteris paribus. In contrast, we only find evidence that deprivation negatively correlates with the carbon footprint related to transport. These results are valid across various robustness tests, and provide valuable insights for policy-making.
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低碳足迹--是自由意志还是贫困的结果?自给自足导向和贫困对个人碳足迹的影响
私人家庭至少占全球温室气体排放量的 60%。因此,更好地了解碳足迹背后的驱动因素非常重要。传统观点认为,碳足迹水平与物质富裕程度密切相关,低碳足迹甚至被视为贫穷的标志。然而,低碳足迹也可能源于自给自足的生活方式。在我们的研究中,基于 2022 年对德国成年人口进行的一项具有人口统计学代表性的调查,我们估计了线性和多项式回归模型,以研究个人的自给自足导向和贫困对碳足迹的影响。我们既研究了总体碳足迹,也将其细分为具体活动,包括空间和水加热、电力消耗、交通和食品。我们发现,在同等条件下,自给自足取向越高,个人的综合碳足迹越低,除空间和水加热外的各项具体活动的碳足迹也越低。相比之下,我们只发现了贫困与交通碳足迹负相关的证据。这些结果在各种稳健性检验中都是有效的,并为政策制定提供了有价值的启示。
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Energy Policy
Energy Policy 管理科学-环境科学
CiteScore
17.30
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5.60%
发文量
540
审稿时长
7.9 months
期刊介绍: Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to climate change mitigation. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques. Energy policy is closely related to climate change policy because totalled worldwide the energy sector emits more greenhouse gas than other sectors.
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