Etat des lieux international des programmes de 'carte carbone' pour les particuliers (Europe, Etats-Unis)

Sandrine Rousseaux (1)

1 DCS - Droit et changement social

Individual card programs are an innovative means to raise individuals' awareness of their environmental impact, and to incentive to change personal behaviors and habits. This study draws up an international state of the art of the ‘green cards' or more specifically of the ‘carbon card' programs launched or considered in Europe and in the United States. It shows how these programs are designed and implemented. They are distinguished into four categories: charity, voluntary carbon offsetting, incentive to sustainable consumption and behaviors, issuance of carbon credits (quotas). Recommendations on the design of an individual card scheme applying in France are made in the light of the programs analyzed. An emerging proposal might constitute a medial way. It consists in accompanying a personal greenhouse gas emissions counting mechanism with a financial incentive: reward, and possible penalty, according to the individual ecological impact.

Mots clés: changement climatique; particuliers; carte carbone; carbon card

Domaines: Environnement et Société

Sandrine Rousseaux. Etat des lieux international des programmes de 'carte carbone' pour les particuliers (Europe, Etats-Unis). 2009. ⟨hal-00368067⟩