Designing feasible and efficient climate policies, 2010-2011

There is very little systematic knowledge about the Norwegian general public's perceptions of environmental policy instruments.- Emissions trading schemes and personal carbon offsets have not been afforded the same attention as environmental taxes.- There has been no systematic comparison of the efficiency of policy options when there are constraints on what is politically feasible due to public perceptions of the policy.

The project will address this knowledge gap through three work packages: WP1: Public attitudes to climate change policies in Norway: A focus group study of public attitudes will be used to design a representative telephone survey of the Norwegian general public's attitidues to the issue. WP2: An experimental investigation of the acceptability of environmental policy instruments: A lab experiment will be designed to test the acceptability of alternative policy instruments. WP3: Implications for designing feasible and efficient mitigation policies: This WP will bring together the findings from the first two WPs to providepolicy recommendations.