The cost of the IPCC carbon target
Italian energy economists report on the means of achieving the IPCC’s target of 550 ppm of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere by the second half of the...
Tag: policy
Stern is mistaken to think binding targets will work
Sir Nicholas Stern argues, ahead of the Bali meeting of the UNFCCC, for binding, differentiated emission targets and international trading. I think his ow...
Carbon ‘compensation’ tariffs—a real prospect?
Lacking trade policy autonomy, the French cannot do this without Brussels’ consent. So far, they do not have it. But will they win in the end? Possibly. ...
What the collapse of the Doha talks means for agreement on climate
The news that the WTO talks had collapsed again probably deserves the familiar gripes and even the bored yawns that greeted it. But behind this story is a wor...
Design of a multilateral regime for emissions trading
The most difficult questions about the management of climate change are not about taxes or trading but about the weakness of multilateral regimes. Their recen...
International impact on food regulations
The Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission engaged Inquit to survey the costs that obligations under international agreements and the requirements of...
Global Trade Advocate
download a copy of Global Trade Advocate (pdf:2.2mb)”>Global Trade Advocate is Inquit’s guide to advocacy on behalf of the global trading interes...