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"Designing Comprehensive Export Carbon Pricing Policies in China"

Xin Wang
ICTSD, 2011. 8 p.
Un article écrit par Xin Wang et publié par l'International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD, Genève, Suisse) à l'occasion de la conférence "A Decade in the WTO: Implications for China and Global Trade Governance" organisée le 29 juin 2011 à Genève.

L'article de Xin Wang (pp.74-81) est le chapitre 15 (partie IV : "What comes next?") du livre A Decade in the WTO: Implications for China and Global Trade Governance édité par Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Christophe Bellmann et Shuaihua Cheng.

Extrait de l'article [en anglais] :

"In a world of unequal carbon prices, the use of an explicit export carbon price in China serves as a transitional measure until domestic carbon price reaches to an internationally comparable level. The merits are at least four-fold: First, it ensures a comprehensive and predictable climate policy for export restructuring and therefore for domestic low carbon development of China; Second, it contributes to lessening carbon leakage and competitiveness problem in a comprehensive manner; Third, it could contribute to tightening climate policy in Annex I countries (for example, to accelerate the stringency of quota auctions at EU ETS); Finally and most importantly, it could give a positive political example on North-South cooperation for tackling carbon leakage and competitiveness questions and could involve more participation both of developed and developing countries of using border carbon measures in a cooperative way. Carbon leakage therefore would be no longer a negative blockage in the context of consolidating international efforts for addressing the climate change."

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