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Blog post 7 March 2024
Unfinished Business: Four Perspectives on Incomplete Inclusivity in Trade
By Ingo Borchert, Emily Lydgate and Maria Savona.
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This blog shines a spotlight on four areas in which inclusivity in trade could improve. This entails the protection of worker rights, participation rates of women in trade, environmental sustainability in agri-food trade, and listening to and understanding the general public’s views on trade policy.
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Briefing Paper 20 November 2023
Addressing the climate gap in digital technologies
By Ingo Borchert, Maria Frabboni, Atilla Kasap, Beatriz Kira, Emily Lydgate, Jeremiah Nyambinya and Sunayana Sasmal et al.
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How does the digital economy affect the environment and what difficulties are there in regulating digital energy use? This Briefing Paper provides three policy recommendations to ensure that the environmental impact of digital technology is not overlooked in discussions about climate change.
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Briefing Paper 16 November 2023
The US-EU Green Subsidies Race one year in: Some perspectives from the rest of the world
By Emily Lydgate, L. Alan Winters CB, Sunayana Sasmal, Xinyan Zhao, Professor James Bacchus and Amrita Saha et al.
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In this Briefing Paper, the authors highlight some of the ramifications of the US-EU green subsidies race for developed country allies of the EU and US, such as the UK, and for low-income countries supplying many of the critical raw materials to make the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) possible.
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Briefing Paper 6 October 2023
Exempting Least Developed Countries from carbon border adjustments: A legal and economic analysis
By Sunayana Sasmal, Dongzhe Zhang, Emily Lydgate and L. Alan Winters CB et al.
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This paper focuses on the extent to which one might mitigate any harm that the CBAM does to the poorest countries. It provides evidence of the potential impact of CBAMs on Least Developed Countries and the Low/Lower Middle-Income Countries and discusses whether and how such an exemption might be accommodated within the existing legal framework of the World Trade Organization.
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Academic Paper 6 September 2023
Climate Equivalence and International Trade
By Emily Lydgate et al.
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This article examines a significant question in navigating trade and climate tension: how to recognize another country as having equivalent climate regulations. Such equivalence forms a core component of many proposed models of so-called climate clubs. Establishing equivalence between distinct national climate regulation regimes poses a unique challenge that draws upon both trade and environmental international cooperation. Drawing on existing proposals, the author examine prospects for country-based cooperation through three models: ETS-linking, benchmarking of shared methods and minimum standards, and benchmarking of outcome duties. The analysis concludes that all models necessitate some trade-offs between the goals of rigorous oversight of climate objectives, inclusivity, and WTO compliance. Benchmarking of shared methods and minimum standards seems most feasible, and would provide a deeper level of integration between trade and climate cooperation, but necessitates a shift in how countries, particularly the EU, oversee regulatory compliance.
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Blog post 31 August 2023
A Carbon Border Adjustment for the UK?
By L. Alan Winters CB and Emily Lydgate.
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This blog sumamrises our response to the UK Government’s consultation on addressing climate leakage, focusing on carbon border adjustments (CBAMs). It considers implementation challenges, policy considerations and issues for least developing countries.
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Blog post 4 April 2023
A trade strategy to support domestic decarbonization and environmental objectives
By Emily Lydgate.
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Emily Lydgate summarises her contributions to the Labour Party National Policy Forum Consultation 2023 on a UK green trade strategy. She provides five key recommendations for such a strategy: more green subsidies and more strategic industrial policy and diplomacy; a new era of cooperation with the EU; strengthen democratic oversight of trade and domestic regulation; pursue opportunities for trade and climate cooperation both through existing FTAs and future plurilateral agreements; and improve the effectiveness of enforcement of UK environmental requirements on traded goods.
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Evidence 3 April 2023
Britain in the World
By Emily Lydgate, Michael Gasiorek, L. Alan Winters CB, Ingo Borchert, Phoebe Li, Minako Morita Jaeger, Mattia Di Ubaldo and Maria Savona.
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Response to the Labour Party National Policy Forum Consultation 2023 providing recommendations on trade policy and growth; digital economy and digital trade policy; international trade, worker and human rights, domestic decarbonization and environmental objectives and trade resilience and economic security.
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Blog post 3 March 2023
Will EU sanctions slow down UK environmental deregulation?
By Emily Lydgate and Chloe Anthony.
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This blog looks at whether the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) would act as a check against the UK weakening existing EU-derived laws on environmental protection which the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill risks enabling ministers to do easily.
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Working Paper 1 February 2023
Beyond non-regression: Mainstreaming climate action into FTAs
By Emily Lydgate.
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The inclusion of climate objectives in recent FTAs is a positive step towards aligning trade and climate goals, and ensuring both international and domestic targets are met.
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