Handbook on trade policy and climate change / edited by Michael Jakob (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jakob, Michael, 1970- editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in energy, the environment and climate change.

Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial policy--Environmental aspects.

Commercial policy.

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This insightful Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in the academic debate on the numerous and complex linkages between international trade and climate change.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword / Aik Hoe Lim

Preface

1. Introduction to the handbook on trade policy and climate change / Michael Jakob

Part I: Linkages between international trade and climate change

2. Trade and climate change: Working through the conflicts and synergies / Aaron Cosbey

3. Globalization and greenhouse gas emissions: Is the United States a pollution haven? / Claire Brunel and Arik Levinson

4. Energy crossroads under China's belt and road initiative / Fernando Ascensão

5. Empirical evidence and projections of carbon leakage: Some, but not too much, probably / Justin Caron

Part II: Policy options to align international trade with climate change mitigation

6. Free allocation of emission permits to reduce carbon leakage: An evolutionary approach / Angelo Antoci, Simone Borghesi, Gianluca Iannucci and Mauro Sodini

7. Output-based allocation and output-based rebates: A survey / Philippe Quirion

8. International cooperation for decarbonizing energy intensive industries: The case for a green materials club / Max Åhman, Marlene Arens and Valentin Vogl

9. The potential of trade sanctions to overcome the small coalition paradox: A review of the literature / Juan Sesmero and Alecia Evans

10. The political economy of emissions trading / Sanjay Patnaik

Part III: Legal and practical considerations

11. How to design border carbon adjustments / Susanne Droege and Maria Panezi

12. Using the trade regime to phase out fossil fuel subsidies / Harro van Asselt, Tom Moerenhout and Cleo Verkuijl

13. Towards an environmental goods agreement style (egast) agenda to improve the regime complex for climate change / Jaime de Melo and Jean-Marc Solleder

14. International trade disputes on renewable energy / Alessandro Monti

Part IV: Distributional and equity issues

15. Production- and consumption-based accounting: An overview of the debate / Stavros Afionis and Marco Sakai

16. Technology-adjusted carbon accounting / Nicolai Baumert, Magnus Jiborn, Astrid Kander and Viktoras Kulionis

17. Distributional effects of environmental trade measures / Lutz Sager

18. Climate impacts and global supply chains: An overview / Leonie Wenz and Sven N. Willner

19. Epilogue / Michael Jakob

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jakob, Michael Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change

ISBN:

9781839103247