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Canada – Renewable Energy: Implications for WTO Law on Green and Not-so-Green Subsidies
Charnovitz, Steve; Fischer, Carolyn - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario …
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Domestic climate policies and the WTO
Zhang, ZhongXiang; Assunção, Lucas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
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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Achieving the “Low Carbon, Green Growth” Vision in Korea
Jones, Randall S.; Yoo, Byungseo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
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Korea's Green Growth Strategy: Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
Jones, Randall S.; Yoo, Byungseo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
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Liberalizing climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods negotiations: product coverage, modalities, challenges and the way forward
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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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Energy and Environmental Issues and Policy in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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/10010732281
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Carbon-based Border Tax Adjustments and China's International Trade: Analysis based on a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Zhang, ZhongXiang; Tang, Ling; Bao, Qin; Wang, Shouyang - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 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 USA and EU on China's international trade, based on a...
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Trade, Climate Policy and Carbon Leakage - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Aichele, Rahel - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...
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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 - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633234
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From “Green Growth” to sound policies: An overview
Schmalensee, Richard - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S1, pp. 2-2
“Green growth” is an attractive slogan with a variety of possible meanings. This essay critically examines several potential meanings of this slogan and provides a brief overview of some of the main implications of the other papers in this special issue. Taken together, these papers argue...
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