关键词: 个人碳交易, 能源贫困, 配额与价格, 参数设计

Abstract: Energy poverty and climate change are two conflicting major problems that restrict the sustainable development of mankind. It is vitally important to design individual carbon emission reduction mechanisms that simultaneously reduce energy poverty. By building a personal carbon trading (PCT) model and using the latest China Residential Energy Consumption Survey data, this paper analyzes the role of PCT scheme in reducing energy poverty and further designs the core parameters such as quota and price in China’s PCT. The results show that: first, energy poverty in some parts of China is a serious problem with large regional differences in energy poverty incidence and strength. Second, the implementation of PCT scheme contributes to the reduction of energy poverty, lowering the poverty incidence in all eight economic zones in the sample, reducing the poverty strength in all zones except the eastern coastal zone. Third, only large increase of the paid quota in the proportion of carbon quota can effectively mitigate energy poverty; the rise of equilibrium carbon price can reduce the energy poverty incidence in the national level, but has regional heterogeneity. Fourth, the carbon price parameter has a clear effect on the reduction of energy poverty incidence, and the quota parameter is more conducive to reducing energy poverty strength. This study provides a useful reference for Chinese government to establish and implement PCT schemeand reduce energy poverty.

Key words: Personal Carbon Trading, Energy Poverty, Quota and Price, Parameter Design