Potential of border tax adjustments to deter free riding in international climate agreements

The objective of this study is to conduct assessment of the hypothesis that trade sanctions in the form of border tax adjustments (BTAs) used by the United States against China, constitute a viable enforcement mechanism to sustain compliance with a range of emissions taxes in the context of agreemen...

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Main Authors: Zeynep Burcu Irfanoglu, Juan P Sesmero, Alla Golub
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024009