Border carbon adjustments and the potential for protectionism

Climate Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 883-900

  Holmes, Peter ^a   Reilly, Tom ^b   Rollo, Jim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Freeman Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cap and trade; Carbon leakage; Competitiveness; Regionalism; Trade policy; World trade organization

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITIVENESS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LEAKAGE; PROTECTIONISM; REGIONALISM; TRADE POLICY; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79955637375     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0071     Document Type: Article

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