The Impact of Climate Legislation on Trade-Related Carbon Emissions 1996–2018

Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander and Sam Fankhauser ()
Additional contact information
Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander: Kingston University London

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2023, vol. 85, issue 1, No 6, 167-194

Abstract: Abstract We analyse the international impact on carbon emissions from national climate legislation in 111 countries over 1996–2018. We estimate trade-related carbon leakage, or net carbon imports, as the difference between consumption and production emissions. Legislation has had a significant negative and roughly similar impact on both consumption and production emissions. The net impact on trade-related emissions is therefore not statistically significant, neither in the short term (laws passed in the last 3 years) nor the long term (laws older than 3 years). We find a significant negative long-term impact on domestic emissions from laws passed by trade partners. This latter specification corresponds to the traditional definition of carbon leakage. Overall, we conclude that there has been no detrimental effect of climate legislation on international emissions.

Keywords: Climate change legislation; Climate policy; Carbon leakage; Technology spillovers; Production emissions; Consumption emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F18 K32 Q54 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10640-023-00762-w Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
Working Paper: The impact of climate legislation on trade-related carbon emissions 1996–2018 (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:enreec:v:85:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1007_s10640-023-00762-w

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... al/journal/10640/PS2

DOI: 10.1007/s10640-023-00762-w

Access Statistics for this article

Environmental & Resource Economics is currently edited by Ian J. Bateman

More articles in Environmental & Resource Economics from Springer, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().