Border Carbon Adjustments Based on Avoided Emissions: Addressing the Challenge of Its Design
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- Authors
- Rocchi, P., Serrano, M., Roca, J., & Arto, I.
- Affiliations
- European Commission (BE)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Rocchi, Paola
- Venue
- Ecological Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 145
- Pages
- 126-136
- ISSN
- 0921-8009 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2754515114
- Cited by
- 54
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 8.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Ecological Economics (publishedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Communities in ADDI (Universidad del Pais Vasco) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Hispana (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ECO2015-67524-R, ECO2015-68023, HAR2015-69620-C2-1-P)
- AGAUR (2014SGR-950)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global trade and economics
- Keywords
- border carbon adjustment, carbon border tax, avoided emissions, carbon leakage, competitiveness, carbon pricing, WTO compatibility, embodied emissions, European Union, climate policy
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