Among the issues that have fuelled the debates on the climate-trade interface in the run-up to Copenhagen, perhaps the most contested one is the proposed use by developed countries of border measures on imports from countries (read ‘major-emitting’ developing countries) not implementing...

We review the state of knowledge concerning international CO emission transfers associated particularly with trade in energy-intensive goods and concerns about carbon leakage arising from climate policies. The historical increase in aggregate emission transfers from developing to developed...

This paper presents an empirical exercise with the aim of addressing the following research questions: (a) how vulnerable is India’s trade to any future border carbon adjustments in the European Union (EU); and (b) which sectors/items are most likely to be affected? The exercise is based on...