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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated … implemented in the European Union. Section 4 discusses broad policy options to address competitiveness and leakage concerns, and …
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Denmark has been a frontrunner in policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and now plans to cut emissions by 70% by 2030 from 1990 levels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Such ambition induces halving emissions from 2019 levels and making the same emission abatement effort in ten...
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This paper reviews ex-post empirical assessments on the impact of carbon pricing on competitiveness in OECD and G20 … carbon pricing or energy prices on different dimensions of competitiveness, including net imports, foreign direct investments …-term effects of carbon pricing on firms’ or sectors’ international competitiveness have not come to pass, at least to date. These …
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“Green growth” is an attractive slogan with a variety of possible meanings. This essay critically examines several potential meanings of this slogan and provides a brief overview of some of the main implications of the other papers in this special issue. Taken together, these papers argue...
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Germany intends to reach climate neutrality in 2045, tripling the speed of emission reductions that was achieved between 1990 and 2019. Soaring energy prices and the need to replace Russian energy imports have amplified the urgency to act. Various policy adjustments are needed to ensure...
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encounter competitiveness and welfare losses and changes in production may lead to carbon leakage. Border Carbon Adjustments … prices. This paper analyses the effects of BCAs and both direct and indirect linking on welfare, competitiveness and carbon … pricing can indeed lead to substantial competitiveness and welfare losses for acting countries as well as to carbon leakage …
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Viet Nam has been quick to recover from the downturns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it faces long-term economic challenges. Boosting labour productivity will be crucial to sustained high economic growth. Attracting further foreign investment and reaping the benefit of advanced...
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Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic...
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Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
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