Arbeitspapier

Border adjustment mechanisms: Elements for economic, legal, and political analysis

This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After thoroughly reviewing their economic practicability, it analyses these mechanisms from an International Trade Law perspective, particularly vis-à-vis the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, sustainable development, and the principle of shared but differentiated responsibilities. It concludes with an assessment of policy-related implications of such mechanisms and outlines, in particular, how border carbon adjustments may be used as an engine of economic and energy transition, for developed and developing countries equally.

ISBN
978-92-9256-063-8
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/20

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Environment
International Law
Energy: Government Policy
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Subject
environmental regulation
border carbon adjustment
international trade law
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
sustainable development
political economy

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bueb, Julien
Richieri Hanania, Lilian
Le Clézio, Alice
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2016

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/063-8
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bueb, Julien
  • Richieri Hanania, Lilian
  • Le Clézio, Alice
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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