This case study is part of the CEPS project ‘Climate for Sustainable Growth', whose main objective is to analyse the impacts of climate change mitigation measures on the three pillars of sustainable development: the economic, environmental and social dimensions. It analyses food labeling via...

For Canadian policy makers, the relatively straightforward economics of a border carbon adjustment (BCA) is complicated in practice by four challenges. First, Canadian carbon-pricing regimes have been developed from the bottom up, being primarily designed at the provincial rather than the...

This paper is a thought piece that accepts the thinking of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the subject of development, and asks what that new conception of development means for trade and sustainable development. That is, if we conceive of development as Sen does, how can this conception help us...

Green industrial policy is normally conceived as measures to foster the development of new green sectors. This chapter explores the ways in which such sectors can be fostered by disrupting existing polluting sectors. It explores several case studies of this dynamic in action, including fossil...