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An infinite-horizon model of dynamic membership of international environmental agreements
Rubio, Santiago J.; Ulph, Alistair - 2003
allow for the possibility that membership of the IEA may change endogenously over time. In this paper we analyse a simple … corresponding steady-state IEA membership, and that if the initial stock of pollution is below (above) steady-state then membership … costs to the pollution stock, initial and steady-state membership decline; in the limit, membership is small and constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591344
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823910
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Liberalizing climate-friendly goods and technologies in the WTO : product coverage, modalities, challenges and the way forward
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: September 1, 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008735718
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Barriers to trade in environmental goods and environmental services : how important are they? ; how much progress at reducing them?
De Melo, Jaime; Vijil, Mariana - 2014
Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344296
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780583
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The US proposed carbon tariffs, WTO scrutiny and China's responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: December 7, 2009
With countries from around the world set to meet in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a post-2012 climate change … ; Lieberman-Warner Bill ; Waxman-Markey Bill ; World Trade Organization ; Kyoto Protocol ; China ; United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702833
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757336
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Overstraining international climate finance: when conflicts of objectives threaten its success
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2020
the climate change problem, we raise concerns whether the world can afford climate transfer schemes that do not focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306737
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Multilateral environmental agreements and trade obligations : a theoretical analysis of the Doha proposal
Naghavi, Alireza (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003356619
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Interactions between climate and trade policies : a survey
Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004
Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603123