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Section 232 reloaded : the false promise of the transatlantic 'climate club' for steel and aluminium

Kleimann, David - 2023

In using the removal of Section 232 'national security' tariffs on steel and aluminium imports as a bargaining chip, the United States demands that the European Union engage in negotiations on "global steel and aluminium arrangements to restore market-oriented conditions and address carbon...

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Greening the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement

Fontagné, Lionel; Karingi, Stephen N.; Mevel, Simon; … - 2024

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The politics of market linkage : linking domestic climate policies with international political economy

Green, Jessica F.; Sterner, Thomas; Wagner, Gernot - 2014

After twenty years of global negotiations, the world is still far from a comprehensive climate agreement. The "top-down" approach embodied by the Kyoto Protocol has all but stalled, chiefly due to disagreements over levels of ambition and objections to financial transfers. To avoid those...

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Policies and instruments for self-enforcing treaties

Harstad, Bård; Lancia, Francesco; Russo, Alessia - 2020

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The problem of the commons : still unsettled after 100 years

Stavins, Robert N. - 2010

The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …

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Endogenous participation in a partial climate agreement with open entry : a numerical assessment

Sferra, Fabio; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013

Our purpose is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of a Partial Climate Agreement with open entry under a non-cooperative Nash-Equilibrium framework. We evaluate a partial agreement policy in which non-signatory countries can decide to join or to leave a coalition of the willing at any...

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Sharing R&D investments in cleaner technologies to mitigate climate change

El-Sayed, Abeer; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2014

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international cooperation on GHG emission reductions. It is assumed that when countries cooperate they coordinate their investments so as to minimize the agreement costs of controlling emissions and...

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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements: should action in the EU and US be postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2008

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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International environmental agreements in the presence of adaptation

Marrouch, Walid; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that adaptive measures undertaken by countries in the face of climate change, apart from directly reducing the damage caused by climate change, may also indirectly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the stable size of international agreements on emission reductions....

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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 - This version: June 2009

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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