A border adjustment for the EU ETS: Reconciling WTO rules and capacity to tackle carbon leakage

Climate Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1212-1225

  Monjon, Stéphanie ^a,b   Quirion, Philippe ^a  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b CEPII   (France)

Author keywords

Border adjustment; Carbon leakage; Emission trading system; EU ETS; World Trade Organization

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; GATT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 80053538398     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2011.601907     Document Type: Article

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