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with their WTO obligations may well arise in implementing the Kyoto Protocol, given that Article 2 of the Protocol gives … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of … climate regimes. Against this background, this paper discusses carbon/energy taxes, subsidies, energy efficiency standards …
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its current form, is likely to face WTO-consistency and methodological challenges. It also holds out more sticks than …
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The climate-trade nexus has become the focus of academic debate, and has gained increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. With concerns about their own competitiveness and growing greenhouse gas...
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The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set legally binding emissions targets for a basket of six greenhouse gases and timetables for industrialised countries. It has also incorporated three international flexibility mechanisms. However, the...
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This is an invited discussion on the Ye, Jin and Liu’s paper “Analysis of Advantages and Disadvantages of Implementation of AIJ for China”. It focuses on five issues or questions: the subject of the paper, China’s concerns about clean development mechanism, what China has done so far in...
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, in its current form, is likely to face WTO-consistency and methodological challenges. It also holds out more sticks than …
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should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the … key issues surrounding liberalized trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods … negotiations. It begins with what products to liberalize and in which manner. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date …
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should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the … key issues surrounding liberalized trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods … negotiations. It begins with what products to liberalize and how. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date show that …
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actions comparable to that of home country. Our discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, we argue that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO rules … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, 1) there should be a period of good …
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emissions. Moreover, the joint WTO-UNEP report indicates that border carbon adjustment measures might be allowed under the … existing WTO rules, depending on specific design features. 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 designing such border carbon adjustment measures …
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