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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
legislation - is assessed, and found to be neither effective nor likely to be WTO-consistent. The paper is concluded by arguing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279393
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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 - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
legislation - is assessed, and found to be neither effective nor likely to be WTO-consistent. The paper is concluded by arguing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502123
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The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy : Normative Assessment and Positive Prognosis
Stavins, Robert N. - 2019
There is widespread agreement among economists – and a diverse set of other policy analysts – that at least in the long run, an economy-wide carbon pricing system will be an essential element of any national policy that can achieve meaningful reductions of CO2 emissions cost-effectively in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869082
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The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy
Stavins, Robert N. - 2019
There is widespread agreement among economists – and a diverse set of other policy analysts – that at least in the long run, an economy-wide carbon pricing system will be an essential element of any national policy that can achieve meaningful reductions of CO2 emissions cost-effectively in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869729
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U.S. Renewable Energy Policy in Context
Davies, Lincoln L. - 2016
This article introduces and overviews U.S. renewable energy policy. It describes the shape, content, and contours of that policy, including its emphases and functions in both the electricity and transportation sectors of the U.S. economy. To do so, the article builds a conceptual model that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002575
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Towards a better understanding of disparities in scenarios of decarbonization : sectorally explicit results from the RECIPE Project
Luderer, Gunnar; Bosetti, Valentina; Jakob, Michael; … - 2009
This paper presents results from a model intercomparison exercise among regionalized global energy-economy models conducted in the context of the RECIPE project. The economic adjustment effects of long-term climate policy aiming at stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations at 450 ppm are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840039
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Combining climate and energy policies : synergies or antagonism? ; modeling interactions with energy efficiency instruments
Lecuyer, Oskar; Bibas, Ruben - 2011
In addition to the already present Climate and Energy package, the European Union (EU) plans to include a binding target to reduce energy consumption. We analyze the rationales the EU invokes to justify such an overlapping and develop a minimal common framework to study interactions arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419715
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How Robust is the Renewable Energy Industry to Political Shocks? Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Elections
Aklin, Michaël - 2018
Climate change mitigation relies increasingly on clean technologies such as renewable energy. Despite widespread success, further deployment of renewables has been met with resistance from voters and governments in several countries. How resilient is the renewable energy industry to adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912378
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Climate change meets trade in promoting green growth: potential conflicts and synergies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
actions comparable to that of home country. This discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, the paperargues that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, there should be: 1) a period of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272458
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The US proposed carbon tariffs, WTO scrutiny and China's responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
emissions. Moreover, the joint WTO-UNEP report indicates that border carbon adjustment measures might be allowed under the … existing WTO rules, depending on their specific design features and the specific conditions for implementing them. Against this … background, this paper argues that, on the U.S. side, there is a need to minimize the potential conflicts with WTO provisions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272502