周 新

Border carbon adjustment (BCA) aims to address the competitiveness and carbon leakage concerns caused by the asymmetric requirements for developed and developing countries regarding their domestic mitigation under the Kyoto Protocol. In this chapter, we argue that although BCA measures level up the playing field of foreign producers to the same...

In this paper we pointed out a hidden inequality in accounting for trade-related emissions in the presence of border carbon adjustment. Under a domestic carbon pricing policy, producers pay for the carbon costs in exchange for the right to emit. Under border carbon adjustment, however, the exporting country pays for the carbon costs of their...