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An appropriately conceived and well-designed border climate adjustment scheme, as a policy mechanism potentially utilizable by many States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, may lead to desirable consequences for the development of comprehensive global greenhouse...
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The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take some mitigation action. However even if all countries deliver on what they have promised by 2030 and progress thereafter continues only at the same rate global...
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Organization (WTO) rules to regulate these measures. It presents practical suggestions to improve monitoring, transparency and … the “north/south” debate, which has long characterized the history of agriculture trade liberalization …
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This paper will reflect on the burgeoning ‘trade and climate change’ scholarship in the context of previous linkage debates – particularly the trade and environment/human rights/development literature. It will focus on the extent to which unilateral measures adopted by States to fight...
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The upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change has led to calls for the United States to adopt a climate change abatement program in advance. In an effort to minimize adverse effects on certain domestic industries from higher energy costs, however, proponents of a cap-and-trade program for...
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Para enfrentar os efeitos da mudança climática, o Projeto de Lei Complementar 493/09 (PLP 493/09) prevê a instituição de tratamento tributário diferenciado para produtos e serviços baseado na emissão de CO2. Este artigo analisa a consistência do tratamento tributário diferenciado tal...
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compatible with the WTO's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM). This paper analyzes the ASCM consistency of …
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Even though the Paris Agreement does not include any trade-related provisions, trade has the potential to play a major role in the implementation of the response measures enshrined by the Parties in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), while creating opportunities for many countries...
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This report investigates the implications of regionalism for the interaction between trade and climate policy. It examines the implications of regional climate governance for international trade and conversely the implications of regional trade governance for climate change action. Regional...
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This paper considers the implications of the shift of trade rule-making and liberalization from the World Trade … Organization (WTO) to the mega-regional mode for the development of responses to climate change. We review developments at the … economy will likely require sanction under a multilateral environmental agreement. Armed with such an agreement, the WTO …
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