substitutes within the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for CO2. Firms therefore had a strong incentive to use the cheaper …-related transaction costs, this study examines the use of international offset credits in the EU ETS. It establishes a model of firm … participation in the EU ETS in general, rather than additional participation in the offset trade. …

might be considered to reform the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). In this paper, we have decided to focus on three … for the carbon costs incurred on basic materials embodied in products. Finally, under the third model, the EU ETS would be … complemented with a climate contribution charged for materials sold in the European Union (EU) at the product benchmark level …

, both in the EU and beyond. Second, the paper presents an analysis of the provisions in WTO law that would apply to product …

climate policy addressing global externalities. The debate is particularly salient in Europe, where the EU Emissions … TradingSystem (EU ETS) covers emissions of many traded sectors. In a first step, we review how carbon leakage and the pollution … introduced by the EU ETS has caused carbon leakage in European manufacturing. We compute trade flows in embodied carbon and value …

Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there are arguably no significant competitiveness effects on firms, at least … costs indicated by their average share in the budgets of most manufacturing industries may limit the impact of the EU ETS …