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Working Paper 18 June 2025
UK trade and productivity across space
By Gio Mion and Dongzhe Zhang et al.
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This paper looks at how international trade and agglomeration economies are connected and finds that in denser areas, the trade productivity premium is lower.
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Blog post 14 April 2025
The CBAM evolves: the EU’s Omnibus Regulation and anti-shuffling measures
By L. Alan Winters CB and Dongzhe Zhang.
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This blog examines two recent EU CBAM developments and their implications
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Blog post 13 December 2024
The UK CBAM journey: Assessing the Government’s response to its consultation of March 2024
By Dongzhe Zhang, L. Alan Winters CB and Emily Lydgate.
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The challenges that will result if the UK CBAM diverges from the design of EU CBAM
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Blog post 11 October 2024
UK Shipping Levy: Necessity, Challenges, and possible path forward
By Dongzhe Zhang.
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The introduction of a shipping emissions levy by the UK raises many challenges, but if handled with care such a levy could set a strong precedent for other nations and thus reduce global shipping emissions.
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Blog post 27 June 2024
Gritty problems in setting up the UK CBAM
By Dongzhe Zhang, L. Alan Winters CB and Emily Lydgate.
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Our response to the Government’s consultation on ‘Introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism from January 2027'.
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Briefing Paper 13 June 2024
Default values in the UK’s CBAM could hinder its climate ambitions
By Dongzhe Zhang and L. Alan Winters CB et al.
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The generation of default values for each CBAM good is crucial. This paper identifies potential problems with applying national average emission intensities, analyses the negative impacts of using uniform default values across countries, assesses the usefulness of using production weights to calculate global averages and discusses percentage-based markup.
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Academic Paper 13 May 2024
Exempting Least Developed Countries from Border Carbon Adjustments: Simple Economically but Complex Legally
By Sunayana Sasmal, Dongzhe Zhang, Emily Lydgate and L. Alan Winters CB et al.
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This paper highlights the gap between normative aims of special and differential treatment (SDT) provisions to support development, and current WTO law and jurisprudence which expose WTO members providing preferential treatment to allegations of discrimination. With increasing unilateral climate action, an inability to integrate SDT more meaningfully into WTO non-discrimination frameworks risks further weakening of international cooperation on climate and trade.
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Briefing Paper 12 April 2024
The revenue potential of phasing out the free allowances received by UK CBAM sectors
By Dongzhe Zhang and L. Alan Winters CB et al.
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This Briefing Paper provides an estimate the potential revenue that the UK government will raise through the phasing out of free allowances under the ETS that will accompany the introduction of the UK’s CBAM.
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Briefing Paper 20 February 2024
The economic significance of the EU CBAM in the UK
By Dongzhe Zhang et al.
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A quantitative estimate of the extent of the possible economic impact of the EU CBAM for the UK.
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Briefing Paper 12 February 2024
Will the CBAM fill the UK’s fiscal gap?
By L. Alan Winters CB and Dongzhe Zhang et al.
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This Briefing Paper looks at potential revenue estimates of UK’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) by mirroring it to the EU’s CBAM.
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