Abstract


Japanese energy and climate policy stands at a critical junction at present and we may need innovative policies from different approaches. The idea of personal carbon allowances (PCA) system is one of the innovative policies to surmount the issues. In this study, a new PCA system, feed-in tariff PCA (FIT-PCA), which main purpose is to improve their attitudes and behaviors to reduce CO2 emission by their own management of their allowances, has been proposed and its public acceptance was evaluated. FIT-PCA has been designed based on three principles which are ¡Èsimplicity¡É, ¡Èfairness¡É and ¡Èeffectiveness¡É. When introducing a new policy, the public acceptance is always one of the difficult issues. Therefore, a questionnaire survey for the public acceptance of the proposed FIT-PCA was conducted on the Internet. In the survey, FIT-PCA was compared with a carbon tax policy. The result shows that FIT-PCA has a possibility to be accepted as well as the carbon tax, and they admire the potential ability to reduce the total CO2 emissions by FIT-PCA. However, it was also revealed that individual factors such as place of residence and residential form sometimes cause feeling of unfairness. The compensation rules for the unfairness will be necessary when introducing FIT-PCA.

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