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Alleviating adverse implications of EU climate policy on competitiveness : the case for border tax adjustments or the clean development mechanism?

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor); … - 2008

Ambitious unilateral EU environmental policy has raised concerns about adverse competitiveness implications for … measures to address these concerns in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS): border tax adjustments (BTA) and the Clean … policy on energy-intensive and export-oriented industries. The regulatory protection of these industries via subsidies for EU …

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An overview of carbon markets and emissions trading : lessons for Canada

King, Michael R. (contributor) - 2008

, and reviews the European experiences with emissions trading. He highlights the lessons learned from the EU Emissions …

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La stratégie environnementale de l'Union européenne

Fitoussi, Jean-Paul (contributor); Laurent, Eloi (contributor) - 2007

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European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services : An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts

Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2015

This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors’ knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...

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‘Gold Plating’ of European Environmental Measures?

Jans, Jan H.; Squintani, L.; Aragão, Alexandra; … - 2013

Minimum harmonization in European environmental law essentially means that the Member States have the power to lay down more stringent standards in this area of regulation than those laid down by European legislation. However, there are indications which seem to suggest that Member States make...

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Capping Carbon

Driesen, David M. - 2013

This article addresses the problem of how to set caps for a cap-and-trade program, a key problem in pending legislation addressing global climate disruption. Previous scholarship on emissions trading programs focuses overwhelmingly on trading’s advantages and sometimes wrongly portrays...

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Trade Flow Consequences of the European Union’s Regionalization of Environmental Regulations

McLaughlin, Patrick A.; Coffey, Bentley - 2012

stringency ratings, taken from survey data, with a panel of 97 countries, controlling for European Union (EU) membership. We find … significant differences in the effects on intra-EU exports compared to trade involving at least one non-EU country. We also find … leads to a dramatic decrease in intra-EU exports originating in low income countries. Conversely, a similar change in …

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Community Environmental Policing : Assessing New Strategies of Public Participation in Environmental Regulation

Macey, Gregg P. - 2009

This paper evaluates a new form of public participation in environmental monitoring and regulation advanced through local "bucket brigades," which allow community members to sample air emissions near industrial facilities. These brigades represent a new form of community environmental policing,...

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Combating Global Climate Change : Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade

Avi-Yonah, Reuven S.; Uhlmann, David M. - 2013

Congress is likely to consider domestic climate change legislation during 2009, with a cap-and-trade system continuing to draw support from the Obama Administration and many leaders in Congress. Yet cap-and-trade regulations would take years for EPA to develop and implement, the desired price...

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Global Green Agenda in the Eurasian Region. Eurasian Region on the Global Green Agenda

Vinokurov, Evgeny; Albrecht, Conrad; Klochkova, Evgeniya; … - 2023

Climate change brings about devastating consequences for the entire globe and is irreversible, so the green economy focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Countries will only transition to the green economy smoothly if they use green and climate...

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