BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19710101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19710101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170427T133000 UID:https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/?post_type=event&p=21395 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T212146Z LOCATION:London School of Economics Room 1.04 32 Lincolns Inn Fields London WC2A 3PH DESCRIPTION:Would income redistribution result in higher aggregate emissions? Lutz Sager (Grantham Research Institute\, LSE) Discussants: Professor Angela Druckman (Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity\, University of Surrey) Ian Gough\, Visiting Professor CASE and Grantham Research Institute\, LSE. Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between the distribution of income and the carbon content of household consumption. Household carbon is estimated by linking expenditure data to productive sectors and their carbon intensity derived through input-output analysis. Environmental Engel curves (EECs) are constructed\, which describe the relationship between household income and CO2 in the United States between 1996 and 2009. This makes possible a number of analyses\, including the decomposition of household carbon inequality. A potential “equity-pollution dilemma” is described and quantified. Assuming that Engel curve estimates are appropriate\, we find that complete income redistribution might have raised household carbon in 2009 by about 2.5%.