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Canada – Renewable Energy : Implications for WTO Law on Green and Not-so-Green Subsidies
Charnovitz, Steve - 2014
In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044208
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Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth : Potential Conflicts and Synergies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
actions comparable to that of home country. This discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, the paper argues that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, there should be: 1) a period of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197090
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Energy Price Reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2018
The Chinese leadership has determined to assign the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right is crucial because this sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918048
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Environmental Policies, Product Market Regulation and Innovation in Renewable Energy
Nesta, Lionel - 2014
We investigate the effectiveness of policies in favor of innovation in renewable energy under different levels of competition. Using information regarding renewable energy policies, product market regulation and high-quality green patents for OECD countries since the late 1970s, we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064859
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Levelling the Playing Field : On the Missing Role of Network Externality in Designing Renewable Energy Technology Deployment Policies
Jin, Wei - 2015
In creating a level playing field that facilitates the deployment of renewable energy technology (RET), the traditional energy policy regime based on eliminating RET's cost gaps versus fossil energy technology (FET) may be not sufficient. Building on an economic model of energy technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016440
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Renewable Energy, Subsidies, and the WTO : Where Has the ‘Green’ Gone?
Bougette, Patrice - 2014
claimed that FIT programs constitute subsidies that go against the SCM Agreement, and that the LCR is incompatible with the … non-discrimination principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper investigates this issue using an …
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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129066
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Carbon-Based Border Tax Adjustments and China's International Trade : Analysis Based on a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Tang, Ling - 2013
With large shares in global trade and carbon emissions, China's international trade is supposed to be significantly affected by the proposed carbon-based border tax adjustments (BTAs). This paper examines the impacts of BTAs imposed by the USA and EU on China's international trade, based on a...
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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092142
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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
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