The relevance of process emissions for carbon leakage: A comparison of unilateral climate policy options with and without border carbon adjustment

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages

  Bednar Friedl, Birgit ^a   Schinko, Thomas ^a   Steininger, Karl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Border tariffs; Carbon leakage; Embodied carbon; Low carbon technologies; Process emissions

Indexed keywords

BORDER TARIFFS; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CARBON LEAKAGE; CEMENT SECTOR; CLIMATE POLICY; COMBUSTION EMISSIONS; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; FUEL COMBUSTION; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; LEAKAGE RATES; LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES; PROCESS EMISSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; EMISSION CONTROL; FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COMBUSTION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; FUEL CONSUMPTION; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84870053266     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.08.038     Document Type: Article

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