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Cross-Border Trade in Electricity and the Development of Renewables-Based Electric Power: Lessons from Europe

Bahar, Heymi; Sauvage, Jehan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

The uptake of renewable energy (RE) has been identified by a number of governments as a primary means for mitigating CO2 emissions from the electricity sector, and for making the transition to a low-carbon economy. The electric power output of some RE technologies, however, including those based...

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The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods

Sauvage, Jehan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

This report assesses conceptually and empirically the extent to which the stringency of environmental regulations drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air and water pollution or GHG emissions take the form of...

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Global Manufacturing SO2 Emissions: Does Trade Matter?

Grether, Jean Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; Melo, Jaime de - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

A growth-decomposition (scale, technique and composition effect) covering 62 countries and 7 manufacturing sectors over the 1990-2000 period shows that trade, through reallocations of activities across countries, has contributed to a 2-3 percent decrease in world SO2 emissions. However, when...

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Possible trade strategies of Argentina against increasing environmental international constraints

Saidón, Mariana; Bamio, Eva L. - In: Economía 35 (2010) 30, pp. 57-78

This paper aims to identify analytically potential impacts on Argentinean international trade as a consequence of foreign environmental legislation emerging, which will impose progressive restrictions on exports. The results suggest a short-term negative impact on the tradable sectors of...

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Does Quality Matter in the Iron and Scrap Trade?

Michida, Etsuyo; Atici, Cemal; Kojima, Michikazu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper sheds light on the iron and steel (IS) scrap trade to examine how economic development affects the quality demanded of recyclable resource. A simple model is presented that show a mechanism of how scrap quality impacts the direction of trade due to comparative advantage. We find that...

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Did International Trade Become Dirtier in Developing Countries? On the Composition Effect of International Trade on the Environment

Yoshida, Yushi; Honma, Satoshi - Faculty of Economics, Kyushu Sangyo University - 2011

, the composition effect of international trade on the environment is only consistent with the pollution haven hypothesis on …

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Khatun, Fahmida - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This paper looks at some of the environment related trade measures which may appear to be trade barriers at times in … the context of the WTO. It also briefly discusses WTO Agreements on environmental measures and the use of environment … related trade measures. The paper finally articulates the interests of LDCs in the area of trade and environment and how their …

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Exporting and environmental performance : where you export matters

Blyde, Juan S.; Ramírez, Mayra A. - 2022

environment are not high. Using a panel of firm-level data from Chile we find support to this hypothesis. A 10 percentage point …

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Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind; Mensbrugghe, … - 2009

There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon prices. A key factor affecting the impact of these taxes is whether they are based on the carbon content of imports or the carbon content in domestic production. Our...

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Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing-Country Industrialization?

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind; Mensbrugghe, … - 2009

Most economic analyses of climate change have focused on the aggregate impact on countries of mitigation actions. We depart first in disaggregating the impact by sector, focusing particularly on manufacturing output and exports because of the potential growth consequences. Second, we decompose...

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