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with their WTO obligations may well arise in implementing the Kyoto Protocol, given that Article 2 of the Protocol gives … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of … climate regimes. Against this background, this paper discusses carbon/energy taxes, subsidies, energy efficiency standards …
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should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the … key issues surrounding liberalized trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods … negotiations. It begins with what products to liberalize and in which manner. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date …
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Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are...
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Using a world multi-sectoral, multi-regional trade model, this paper has investigated the economic and environmental implications of climate control coalitions cooperating on R&D investment that triggers low cost environmentally friendly technologies. We start with the Kyoto scenario where all...
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In the past, environmental decision making has been based on analysis of policy options with respect to emission reduction, deposition or concentration of pollutants and the design of preventive strategies using disparate single-model and discipline results. It was impossible to obtain optimal...
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The climate-trade nexus has become the focus of academic debate, and has gained increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. With concerns about their own competitiveness and growing greenhouse gas...
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This is an invited discussion on the Ye, Jin and Liu’s paper “Analysis of Advantages and Disadvantages of Implementation of AIJ for China”. It focuses on five issues or questions: the subject of the paper, China’s concerns about clean development mechanism, what China has done so far in...
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actions comparable to that of home country. Our discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, we argue that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO rules … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, 1) there should be a period of good …
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its current form, is likely to face WTO-consistency and methodological challenges. It also holds out more sticks than …
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Environmental regulation can be broadly divided into those that follow the top-down and bottom-up approaches. The two approaches have similar objective with respect to environmental protection and sustainability. However, the success with which each approach achieves goals of environmental...
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