| As the major source of greenhouse gases, the impact of carbon dioxide onenvironment is increasingly serious. Every country has taken relevant measures andinitiated various energy-saving and emission reduction activities to reach the goal ofreducing carbon dioxide emissions. Among them, the carbon tax, as an effective wayof reducing emissions, has been adopted and implemented by many developedcountries. China is the largest carbon dioxide producer in the world and is alsoplanning to launch carbon tax to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The effect ofcarbon tax depends on the actual conditions for levying carbon tax, which will alsodirectly affect the emissions reduction in our country. Only when our country hasappropriate environment for levying carbon tax can it achieve the goal of emissionsreduction by the policy of carbon tax.In order to ensure that the carbon tax can be implemented smoothly, this paperstudies the implementation environment for carbon tax, and analyzes thoroughly theactual situation in China including two aspects that are people’s attitude towardcarbon tax and actual conditions for launching carbon tax. Different research methodswill be applied for above two aspects. As to people’s attitude and cognition,questionnaire survey will be employed to gain people’s understanding, cognition andattitude on the carbon tax; for the actual conditions for launching carbon tax, carbontax launching environment evaluation index system will be established combiningsubjective and objective weighting methods to analyze and find out the actualsituation for implementing carbon tax in China.On the one hand, the investigation results show that most interviewees (nearly63.7%) have certain understanding and cognition of the carbon tax mechanism, butthey also expressed some concerns and worries about the implementation of carbontax in future. On the other hand, the score of actual conditions for launching carbontax calculated with the evaluation index system illustrates that the score is increasingyear by year, but is still behind the standard required for implementing carbon tax.The carbon tax can be implemented at proper time in the future when the standard issatisfied (the score growth rate exceeds0.5663)Based on the research above, we can find out the subjective and objectiveconditions for implementing carbon tax in China and it will also help ourunderstanding of and further improvement on the existing conditions for launchingcarbon tax as well as provide guidance on future execution of carbon tax. Therefore,this paper has substantial practical significance of and reference value in studying thecarbon tax launching conditions in China. |
