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|Taxes||Revenue||Difficulty and controversy involved in setting level of taxes; difficult for authority to raise taxes to the appropriate level due to political and electoral pressure. | |Taxes||Revenue||Difficulty and controversy involved in setting level of taxes; difficult for authority to raise taxes to the appropriate level due to political and electoral pressure. | ||
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|Markets (e.g. carbon trading) | |Markets (e.g. carbon trading)||Potential disadvantage: If allocations are given to existing emitters, that effectively rewards polluters.||Strong motivation of personal gain; efficient allocation of resources. | ||
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|Game ||Strong motivation of personal gain; to win. (I can't find it now, but in the mid 1990s Chicago had a 'superhero' would go through people's garbage and if everything was correctly put together (compost, glass, plastic, metal, garbage) then the family would win $500. It was brilliant. | |Game ||Potential disadvantage: not taken seriously ||Strong motivation of personal gain; to win. (I can't find it now, but in the mid 1990s Chicago had a 'superhero' would go through people's garbage and if everything was correctly put together (compost, glass, plastic, metal, garbage) then the family would win $500. It was brilliant. | ||
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Note that increased | Note that increased awarness and access to information can help people to make better choices - these are not incentives in themselves, but can make the incentives more effective. | ||
==Other suggestions== | ==Other suggestions== |