The Distributional Impacts of Economic Instruments to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transport

Abstract

The research reported in this was conducted under the project The Social Impacts of Environmental Taxes: Removing Regressivity, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation under it Programme on Environment and Social Concerns. The project is investigating the social implications of environmental taxes and charges in relation to four environmental issues - the household use of energy, water and transport, and the generation of waste. The is a report of the component on the household use of transport.