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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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Report 15 December 2022
Towards a fair and strategic trade and climate policy
By Emily Lydgate et al.
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This report from the UK Climate and Trade Commission calls for Government-led change so that trade policy helps to deliver COP27 promises. As efforts to fight climate change reach into every aspect of policy making, governments around the world are beginning to turn their attention to the connection between trade and climate change. This is welcome as the area has long been overlooked, and it is vital that trade policy is coherent with climate objectives.
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Working Paper 10 November 2022
Climate equivalence and international trade
By Emily Lydgate.
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This article examines a significant question in navigating trade and climate tension: how to recognise another country as having equivalent climate regulation. Such equivalence forms the foundation of many proposed models of so-called climate clubs. The author examines prospects for country-based cooperation through three models and concludes that all models necessitate some trade-offs between the goals of rigorous oversight of climate objectives, inclusivity, and WTO-compliance.
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Academic Paper 20 July 2022
Coordinating UK trade and climate policy ambitions: a legislative and policy analysis
By Emily Lydgate et al.
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This paper considers how to reconcile liberal trade policy with a net-zero target. After setting out the relevance of trade policy to the climate target, the authors examine areas at their intersection: current and proposed UK green subsidies, regulatory trade barriers, potential carbon border adjustment, fossil fuel subsidies and free trade agreements applying two analytical tests: compliance with relevant World Trade Organisation obligations and coherence with the net-zero climate target. The analysis is hindered by uncertainty, primarily regarding the extent of future global climate ambition, but there are clear areas in which the UK could strengthen its approach to climate change mitigation without undermining its commitment to open trade. Barring a major increase in global ambition, achieving the net-zero target will, however, likely require new trade restrictions. The implication is that the climate target must comprise a central objective of trade strategy.
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Academic Paper 20 July 2022
Brexit, food law and the UK’s search for a post‐EU identity
By Emily Lydgate et al.
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Mapping reforms to key areas of food law across retained EU law, the UK internal market and UK trade law and policy reveals profound reforms, and an emerging, distinct UK approach to law-making. The authors identify three themes: increased conferral of regulatory powers and functions to UK Ministers, coupled with an expansion of so-called non-legislative approaches to regulation and policy-making and increased scope for divergence between UK nations. Food law reveals that post-Brexit legislative processes have been shaped by, but also entrench unilateral executive decision-making, lessened transparency and disunity between UK nations.
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Report 29 June 2022
Trade policies and emissions reduction: establishing and assessing options
By L. Alan Winters CB and Emily Lydgate et al.
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The Climate Change Committee commissioned the University of Sussex (via the UK Trade Policy Observatory and the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy) and Vital Economics to review UK trade policy options to review trade policy options, with a particular focus on CBAMs and mandatory minimum product standards. The project set out a taxonomy of trade policy options, the current landscape, an assessment of the key design decisions for CBAMs and product standards and practical steps required for implementing these policies.
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