Pricing Carbon at the Border: Key Questions for the EU

A review of the scholarship on border carbon adjustments

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Date

April 30, 2020

Authors

Susanne Droege and Carolyn Fischer

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Journal Article in ifo DICE report

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1 minute

Pricing carbon at the border by introducing border carbon adjustment (BCA) is a tool for addressing carbon leakage. In this article, Droege and Fischer summarize some recent reviews of the scholarship on BCA and how the ideas may apply to emerging policies in the EU.

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Susanne Droege

German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Carolyn Fischer

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Carolyn Fischer is a senior fellow at RFF. Fischer's research explores questions of environmental policy instrument design.

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