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With large shares in global trade and carbon emissions, China's international trade is supposed to be significantly …
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The paper considers a situation where two countries - the North and the South - use a non-traded polluting input to produce the goods for final consumption. The North is more efficient in both, production and abatement processes. The study compares the effects of the transfer of abatement...
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between 1994 and 2005 reduced the cost of fossil fuels thereby resulting in an increase in carbon emissions. The economic cost … of reducing carbon emissions by imposing a carbon tax appears minimal as the reduction in consumer prices due to tariff … carbon emissions relative to 1994 levels appears to be a sensible alternative for the country …
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) because it generates electricity and absorbs emissions at the same time. However, biomass is not distributed evenly across the …
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environmental tax reforms and greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes that have been implemented in the European Union. Section 4 …
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In this paper we empirically investigate the relationship between investments in environmentally-oriented equipment and firms’ export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where first we estimate the impact of green investment...
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The Doha Round Agenda (paragraph 31(3)) mandates to liberalize environmental goods and services. This mandate offers a good opportunity to put climate-friendly goods and services on a fast track to liberalization. Agreement on this paragraph should represent one immediate contribution that the...
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To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap … emissions allowances corresponding to the embedded carbon contents in their goods from countries that have not takenclimate ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, the paperargues that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO …
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agreement, no one would disagree that a U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions is essential to such a global pact …. However, despite U.S. president Obama's recent announcement to push for a commitment to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by … 17% by 2020, in reality it is questionable whether U.S. Congress will agree to specific emissions cuts, although they are …
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The climate-trade nexus gains increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This raises the issues of the scope of trade-related measures and of when and how they could be used. This paper discusses how far...
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