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Would Border Carbon Adjustments prevent carbon leakage and heavy industry competitiveness losses ?

Would Border Carbon Adjustments prevent carbon leakage and heavy industry competitiveness losses ? Insights from a meta-analysis of recent economic studies  / Frédéric Branger & Philippe Quirion. Paris : CIRED, September 2013, 26 p. (DT/WP No 2013-52) http://www.centre-cired.fr/IMG/pdf/CIREDWP-201352.pdf Authors’s abstract : The efficiency of unilateral climate policies...

Can climate policy enhance sustainability?

Implementing an effective climate policy is one of the main challenges for our future. Even though ambitious mitigation targets are necessarily costly, curbing GHG emissions can prevent future irreversible impacts of climate change on human kind and the environment. Climate policy is therefore crucial for present and future generations. Nonetheless, one may wonder whether the economic and social dimensions of future global development could be harmed by climate policy. This paper addresses this question by examining some recent developments in international climate policy and considering different levels of cooperation that may arise in light of the outcomes of the Conference of the Parties recently held in Doha…