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Canada – Renewable Energy: Implications for WTO Law on Green and Not-so-Green Subsidies
Charnovitz, Steve; Fischer, Carolyn - 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/10010491245
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Liberalizing climate-friendly goods and technologies in the WTO: product coverage, modalities, challenges and the way forward
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
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 how. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272454
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Multilateral trade measures in a post-2012 climate change regime? What can be taken from the Montreal Protocol and the WTO?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2009
legislation - is assessed, and found to be neither effective nor likely to be WTO-consistent. The paper is concluded by arguing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279393
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Trade in environmental goods, with focus on climate-friendly goods and technologies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
. Agreement on this paragraph should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change … WTO environmental goods negotiations. It begins with discussing what products to liberalize and how. Given that WTO … in environmental goods and technologies forward, both within and outside the WTO. Recognizing that there is no one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279428
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Energy and Environmental Issues and Policy in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328706
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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; Bao, Qin; Zhang, ZhongXiang; Wang, Shouyang - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294337
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Renewable Energy, Subsidies, and the WTO: Where Has the ‘Green’ Gone?
Bougette, Patrice; Charlier, Christophe - 2014
-discrimination principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper investigates this issue using an international quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491235
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Carbon Price and Wind Power Support in Denmark
Gavard, Claire - 2015
This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491260
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Energy Prices, Subsidies and Resource Tax Reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491218
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Can uncertainty justify overlapping policy instruments to mitigate emissions?
Lecuyer, Oskar; Quirion, Philippe - 2012
This article constitutes a new contribution to the analysis of overlapping instruments to cover the same emission sources. Using both an analytical and a numerical model, we show that when the risk that the CO2 price drops to zero and the political unavailability of a CO2 tax (at least in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294269