Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions:a theoretical and empirical analysis for the U.S. and Germany

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2017
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  • Tourism
  • Climate change
  • Low-carbon tourism
  • Tourists
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  • Tourism
  • Climate change
  • Low-carbon tourism
  • Tourists
  • Destination
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  • This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the consumption of a polluting good. We further discuss the impact of an increased environmental preference on purchases of offsets and mitigation activities. Several theoretical results are then econometrically tested using a novel dataset on activities to reduce CO 2 emissions for the case of vehicle purchases in the U.S. and Germany. We show that environmental preference triggers the stated use of CO 2 offsetting and mitigation channels in both countries. However, we find strong country differences for the stated purchase of CO 2 offsets. While such activities are mainly triggered by a high general awareness of the climate change problem in the U.S., the perception that road travel is responsible for CO 2 emissions to a large extent is more important for driver’s license holders in Germany.
  • This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the consumption of a polluting good. We further discuss the impact of an increased environmental preference on purchases of offsets and mitigation activities. Several theoretical results are then econometrically tested using a novel dataset on activities to reduce CO 2 emissions for the case of vehicle purchases in the U.S. and Germany. We show that environmental preference triggers the stated use of CO 2 offsetting and mitigation channels in both countries. However, we find strong country differences for the stated purchase of CO 2 offsets. While such activities are mainly triggered by a high general awareness of the climate change problem in the U.S., the perception that road travel is responsible for CO 2 emissions to a large extent is more important for driver’s license holders in Germany.
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