Carbon Pricing and Transit Accessibility to Jobs : Impacts on Inequality in Rio de Janeiro and Kinshasa (English)

Urban transport is a major driver of global carbon dioxide emissions. Without strong mitigation policies, rapid urbanization, especially in developing countries, is expected to exacerbate the problem. There is a growing consensus on the fundamental role of carbon pricing for achieving reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. However, carbon pricing policies are frequently criticized and resisted for having adverse distributional impacts, which could...
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Nell,Andrew David; Herszenhut,Daniel; Knudsen,Camilla; Nakamura,Shohei; Saraiva,Marcus; Avner,Paolo.

Carbon Pricing and Transit Accessibility to Jobs : Impacts on Inequality in Rio de Janeiro and Kinshasa (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10341 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099434503062310151

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