Documents de travail de l'OCDE sur le commerce et l'environnement
Cette sélection d’études porte sur l’interface entre les échanges et l’environnement. Elle s’adresse à un large public. Les thèmes retenus sont la libéralisation des échanges de biens qui ont trait à l’environnement et les échanges de ces mêmes biens et services.
- ISSN : 18166881 (en ligne)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18166881
Border Carbon Adjustment and International Trade
A Literature Review
An important source of political opposition to measures aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) arises from concerns over their negative effects on the competitiveness of domestic firms, especially those that are energy-intensive and exposed to competition from foreign producers. Politicians and industry representatives alike fear that imports from countries without similar regulations can gain cost-of-production advantages over domestic goods. With many of the major economies of the world contemplating unilateral action to restrict their carbon emissions (while continuing to pursue co-ordinated multilateral action), the parallel concern of carbon leakage — whereby domestic reductions in emissions are partially or wholly counterbalanced by increased emissions elsewhere in the world — has also arisen. Various adjustments have been proposed, both in the academic literature and in draft climate legislation, including levying a border tax or requiring importers to surrender a quantity of carbon permits. Collectively, these kinds of adjustments are often referred to as border carbon adjustments, or BCAs. This note reviews the existing literature on BCAs and alternatives to BCAs and discusses what various researchers have concluded about the efficacy of BCAs from both a trade and an environmental perspective.
Mots-clés: climate change, border carbon adjustment, border tax adjustment, trade and environment
JEL:
K32: Law and Economics / Other Substantive Areas of Law / Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law;
F59: International Economics / International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy / International Relations and International Political Economy: Other;
F64: International Economics / Economic Impacts of Globalization / Economic Impacts of Globalization: Environment;
H23: Public Economics / Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue / Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies;
Q54: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming;
Q58: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Environmental Economics: Government Policy;
F13: International Economics / Trade / Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations;
K33: Law and Economics / Other Substantive Areas of Law / International Law;
F18: International Economics / Trade / Trade and Environment;
F53: International Economics / International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy / International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations;
Q48: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Energy / Energy: Government Policy