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Border carbon adjustment and international trade : a literature review
Condon, Madison; Ignaciuk, Adriana M. - 2013
economies of the world contemplating unilateral action to restrict their carbon emissions (while continuing to pursue co … counterbalanced by increased emissions elsewhere in the world — has also arisen. Various adjustments have been proposed, both in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230663
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Border adjustment mechanisms : elements for economic, legal, and political analysis
Bueb, Julien; Richieri Hanania, Lilian; Le Clézio, Alice - 2016
This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447295
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Alternative approaches for rating INDCs : a comparative analysis
Davide, Marinella; Vesco, Paola - 2016
The “Intended nationally determined contributions” (INDCs) communicated by both developing and developed countries represent a crucial element of the Paris agreement. This paper aims at analysing the INDCs submitted by Parties, through the different tools and approaches proposed by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451646
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Regulating the Climate
Tvarnoe, Christina D. - 2020
This paper discusses the UN and EU regulations on the climate change in regard to CO2 emission in a perspective of the “Tragedy of the Commons”. The paper presents the objectives of the Rio Convention UNDCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and the EU CO2 trading system. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840590
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State Ownership and Climate Change Mitigation : Overcoming the Carbon Curse?
Mayer, Benoit - 2019
Climate policies have often focused on the role of State as a regulator. Meanwhile, their role as leading economic actors, especially as shareholders and investors, has been neglected. State-owned enterprises control significant shares of economic sectors which are central to a carbon-intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901718
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The UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol : The Challenges of Trying to Clean One's Own Nest
Merkouris, Panos - 2017
In the Tragedy of the Commons Hardin suggested that with respect to global commons we are trapped in a vicious circle where calculations of utility pushes us to keep polluting our own nest. This taken on a global scale has led to concerns about climate change and a realization that measures need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969759
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Border Carbon Adjustment and International Trade : A Literature Review
Condon, Madison - 2015
economies of the world contemplating unilateral action to restrict their carbon emissions (while continuing to pursue co … counterbalanced by increased emissions elsewhere in the world — has also arisen. Various adjustments have been proposed, both in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011595
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Including Aviation in the European Union Scheme for Emission Allowance Trading : Stimulating Global Market-Based Measures
Bakker, Melle - 2015
To realize international emission reduction targets, the European Union introduced a scheme for emission allowance trading. Despite large resistance from countries and companies, aviation activities were included in the scope of the trading scheme. In Air Transport Ass'n of America v. Secretary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013435
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Think Global : International Reciprocity as Justification for a Global Social Cost of Carbon
Howard, Peter - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985300
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On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Weitzman, Martin - 2018
conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic "World Climate Assembly" (WCA) that votes for a single worldwide price on carbon … derives fresh insights and new simple formulas that relate each emitter's most-preferred world price of carbon to the world … "Social Cost of Carbon" (SCC), and further relates the WCA-voted world price of carbon to the world SCC. I argue that the WCA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929696