Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design

By Trevor Houser, R. Bradley, B. Childs. 2008

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Border adjustment for European emissions trading: Competitiveness and carbon leakage (2010, background): “Several potential measures have been identified, including international sectoral agreements, cost containment measures, free or outputbased allocation of allowances, and border adjustment measures (Grubb and Neuhoff, 2006; Houser et al., 2008).”
The Global Effects of Subglobal Climate Policies (2010, background): “But others voice apprehensions that unilateral trade measures could poison future climate negotiations (Houser et al. 2008) or trade relations (ICTSD 2008).”
Carbon pricing in climate policy: seven reasons, complementary instruments, and political economy considerations (2017, background): “Once a country applies carbon pricing on its domestic goods, it could in principle also apply it to imported goods, through a carbon-motivated border tax adjustment or requirements of acquisition of emission permits by importers when the policy is a cap-and-trade system.(34) This would level the pla”
Climate change policy and international trade: Policy considerations in the US (2009, background): “The more detailed structure of the model used here allows a greater differentiation between products than has been done in the past, an admitted weakness of past analyses since different products within the affected sectors may have different price changes or trade patterns (Houser et al., 2008).”