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来源类型 | Project |
规范类型 | 研究项目 |
项目编号 | 1807 |
Trade Related Measures and Climate Change Policies | |
Aaron Best; Dr. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf; Cornelius Laaser; Maria Berglund | |
开始日期 | 2007-12 |
结束日期 | 2008-07 |
资助机构 | European Commission, Directorate-General Environment (DG Environment) |
概述 | This project analysed the key legal, economic and environmental issues related to using specific trade-related measures as a means of supporting the EU's climate change objectives and policies. Three trade measures are examined: 1) carbon equalisation mechanisms; 2) export credits and investment guarantees; and 3) conditions on access to the EU carbon market. The primary focus of analysis is on the first measure: carbon equalisation measures.Read more |
摘要 | This project analysed the key legal, economic and environmental issues related to using specific trade-related measures as a means of supporting the EU's climate change objectives and policies. Three trade measures are examined: 1) carbon equalisation mechanisms; 2) export credits and investment guarantees; and 3) conditions on access to the EU carbon market. The primary focus of analysis is on the first measure: carbon equalisation measures. Successfully tackling the problem of climate change will require significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a global scale. The EU has adopted the climate goal of limiting global temperature increases to no more than 2 degree Celsius. As a means of moving toward this objective, the European Commission proposed in January 2008 an ambitious energy and climate change proposal (the so-called "climate package") aimed at reducing the EU's GHG emissions by up to 30% below 1990 levels by 2020, with a unilateral EU commitment to a 20% emissions reduction in the absence of a post-2012 international climate agreement. In this context concerns have been voiced that so-called "carbon leakage" could occur when EU firms relocate their operations outside the European Union due to the higher cost of carbon emissions within the EU. To the extent these firms relocate outside the EU, the related employment opportunities are lost to other regions and greenhouse gas emission might even rise. Both industry and environmental stakeholders in the EU agree that carbon leakage is an unwanted side effect of a unilateral climate policy. |
标签 | Climate ; Trade ; Ecologic Legal |
关键词 | Carbon equalization mechanisms GATT WTO TRIMS Europe Germany United Kingdom UK |
URL | https://www.ecologic.eu/11026 |
来源智库 | Ecologic Institute (Germany) |
资源类型 | 智库项目 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/38941 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aaron Best,Dr. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf,Cornelius Laaser,et al. Trade Related Measures and Climate Change Policies. 2007. |
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