This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...

The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the European Union’s "Fit for 55" plan, announced in 2021, which intends to meet a 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions by 55 percent from 1990 levels. Design/methodology/approach: An analytical model is used to assess the impact of the EU...