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Does the EU ETS cause carbon leakage in European manufacturing?

Naegele, Helene; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2017

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 …

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Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of green waste : an environmental and economic assessment of HTC coal in the metropolitan region of Berlin, Germany

Medick, Jakob; Teichmann, Isabel; Kemfert, Claudia - 2017

Based on a life-cycle sustainability assessment and the calculation of carbon abatement costs, we quantify the greenhouse-gas emission reductions and costs if green waste in the metropolitan region of Berlin, Germany, is diverted from composting into the production of hydrothermally carbonized...

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Using public procurement as a decarbonisation policy : a look at Germany

Chiappinelli, Olga; Zipperer, Vera - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 49, pp. 523-532

Public authorities spend large proportions of their GDP on goods and services and are therefore responsible for a significant share of embedded emissions. Given this large impact, governments have the responsibility of decarbonizing their purchases, as well as the potential to influence markets...

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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017

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 …

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Time-consistent carbon pricing

Chiappinelli, Olga; Neuhoff, Karsten - 2017

In this paper we show that carbon pricing is subject to time-inconsistency and we investigate solutions to improve on the problem and restore the incentive for the private sector to invest in low-carbon innovation. We show that a superior price-investment equilibrium can be sustained in the...

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Are international environmental policies effective? : the case of the Rotterdam and the Stockholm Conventions

Núñez-Rocha, Thaís; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2018

This paper is the first to estimate the effect of two international agreements (Rotterdam Convention, RC, and the Stockholm Convention, SC) in reducing trade in hazardous substances. We estimate the effects of ratification of these agreements on imports of the affected products putting emphasis...

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Mitigation vs. adaptation : a critical overview of EU climate change policies and their impact on agriculture

Marius, Cosmin Boiangiu - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 271-276). 2017

EU mitigation policies are derived from the international agreementsforreducing and limiting greenhouse gases emissions … the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. By examining the relative projected efficiency of EU's mitigation efforts …

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