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Personal Carbon Trading as a Potential Policy Instrument to Reduce Swedish Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This working paper explores the idea of Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) and assesses its potential for reducing Greenhouse gas emissions caused by household consumption, specifically in Sweden.

Björn Nykvist, Åsa Persson, Annika Varnäs / Published on 5 November 2010
Citation

Annika Varnäs, A., Nykvist, B., Persson, Å., Rauland, V. (2010). Personal Carbon Trading as a Potential Policy Instrument to Reduce Swedish Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Varnäs, A., Nykvist, B., Å. Persson and V. Rauland (2010). Personal Carbon Trading as a Potential Policy Instrument to Reduce Swedish Greenhouse Gas Emissions. SEI working paper.

The importance of household consumption as a contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has lately been emphasised in Sweden. It has for example been pointed out that emissions from Swedish consumption are around 25 per cent higher than those caused by production in the country.

Linked to this debate, the interest for policies targeting consumption is also growing. Personal carbon trading is one such proposed policy instrument, where GHG emissions from household consumption would be limited by an overall emissions cap.

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SEI authors

Bjorn Nyqvist
Björn Nykvist

Team Leader: Energy and Industry Transitions; Senior Research Fellow

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Åsa Persson
Åsa Persson

Research Director and Deputy Director

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