Border Carbon Adjustment: Questions and Answers (But More of the Former)
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Border Carbon Adjustment
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Border Carbon Adjustment
1.0 Introduction
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the
Kyoto Protocol are currently in talks designed to help shape a climate change regime to succeed
the Protocol’s first commitment period, which ends in 2012. At this point, even this close t...
Border Carbon Adjustment:
Questions and Answers
(But More of the Former)
Background paper produced for the
2009 International Trade Experts’ Meeting
October 26–27, Toronto
Aaron Cosbey
Associate and Senior Trade and Climate Change Advisor
International Institute for Sustainable Development
acosbey@iisd.ca
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Border Carbon Adjustment:
Questions and Answers (But More of the Former)
October 2009
Aaron Cosbey, IISD
International Institute for Sustainable Development
161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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