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‘green goods’ (also known as`environmental goods’(EGs)), focussing on the elimination of tariffs for an ‘APEC list’ of 54 … complementarities between trade in Environmental Goods and trade in Environmental Services, these should also be brought to the …
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design of this index draws both on the environmental literature, and some principles used by the United Nations to measure … Countries (LDCs). As an environmental index, the PVCCI uses components which reflect only the physical consequences of climate …
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collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility, with no meaningful …
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with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility. There is …
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The paper surveys the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country’s development … ‘green-growth’ strategy (environmentally preferable products and goods for environmental management). Main conclusions are … little evidence that differences in environmental policies across countries has led to significant ‘pollution havens’. Trade …
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with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility. There is …
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This paper asks two questions concerning Border Tax Adjustments for climate purposes, when viewed from a trade perspective: First, under what conditions are BTAs possible in the WTO-world? To address this issue, the paper provides a detailed discussion of the relevant law and case law. We also...
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The pollution terms of trade (PTT) index first introduced and estimated by Antweiler (1996) allows to identify if trade-embodied emissions are on average larger in exports than in imports. His empirical results were based on the tradecomposition (between-sector) part of the PTT and revealed...
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The pollution terms of trade (PTT) index first introduced and estimated by Antweiler (1996) allows to identify if trade-embodied emissions are on average larger in exports than in imports. His empirical results were based on the tradecomposition (between-sector) part of the PTT and revealed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747711
The paper argues first that the climate, trade and water communities should leave aside their prejudices, and it provides clear evidence that the three communities confront the same vested interests when trying to solve their common problem of free riding. Then, it argues that such strong...
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