Event Date: November 15, 2018 - 1:30 to 3:00
Location: FSS 5028, 120 University Private

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network:

Despite being favored by economists, carbon pricing policies to reduce carbon pollution have become more politically controversial in the past 15 years, with prominent political failures or reversals globally. These policies raise complicated political economy questions about the allocation of carbon revenue. In the last few years, academics and political leaders have seized upon providing the public with equal shares of carbon revenue, or a “carbon dividend,” as a promising strategy to build public and political support for carbon pricing. This talk reviews prominent existing and proposed carbon pricing policies globally and in Canada to evaluate the ability of the carbon dividend approach to build political support compared to other carbon revenue strategies.

Dr. Leigh S. Raymond is a political science professor at Purdue University in Indiana. Professor Raymond’s research focuses on environmental policy, especially market-based policy approaches. He studies how informal rules and social norms related to fairness, ownership, and environmental values affect environmental policy creation, policy change, and policy implementation. His work has covered a range of topics including policies on acid rain and climate change, energy conservation, environmental risk management, renewable fuels, conservation tillage, and biodiversity protection on private lands.