Umweltzölle, fairer Wettbewerb und Klimaschutz: Ökozölle und ein besserer globaler Klimavertrag

Ekardt Felix ()
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Ekardt Felix: Ostseeinstitut für Seerecht, Umweltrecht und Infrastrukturrecht – Juristische Fakultät der Universität Rostock, Richard-Wagner-Str. 31, 18119 Rostock

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2010, vol. 59, issue 2, 154-164

Abstract: The paper offers an innovative structure for a future transnational climate policy beyond the Kyoto Protocol (and criticizes the overall methodology of climate economics), but mainly assesses the possibilities for a strongly extended pioneering role of the European Union - secured by complementary border adjustments for imports and exports. Border adjustments do not discriminate against anybody in global free markets and therefore do not violate WTO rules, as they make sure that whoever refuses to protect the climate will not be granted an unfair advantage by eco-dumping. Border adjustments do not spare us to rethink our way of life. But border adjustments allow the EU to act as a role model for countries like China, India and or the USA in advancing an effective and social (and economically prospering) climate policy. This may be the only way to stimulate action for a global, effective and social climate policy.

Date: 2010
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