Do PTAs with environmental provisions reduce emissions? Assessing the effectiveness of climate-related provisions?
| Autor: | Sorgho, Zakaria, Joe, Tharakan |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), HEC Liège, Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain] (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), ANR-10-LABX-0014,IDGM+,Designing new international development policies from research outcomes. An enhanced(2010), Rouanet, Fabienne, Laboratoires d'excellence - Designing new international development policies from research outcomes. An enhanced - - IDGM+2010 - ANR-10-LABX-0014 - LABX - VALID |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Environmental policy
Greenhouse gases Climate-related provisions Global warming Preferential trade agreements Climate change JEL: F - International Economics/F.F1 - Trade/F.F1.F13 - Trade Policy • International Trade Organizations JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects JEL: F - International Economics/F.F1 - Trade/F.F1.F18 - Trade and Environment [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance |
| Popis: | The aim of this paper is to assess the effectiveness on climate change mitigation of the climate-related commitments contained in PTAs. Because of a lack of availability of detailed data on PTAs, the academic literature on the role of PTAs with environmental provisions (PTAwEP) in global climate governance remains limited. A novel and detailed database identifying nearly 300 different types of environmental provisions from more than 680 PTAs since 1947 allows us to establish per country and per year the number of PTAs by distinguishing PTAs with climate-related provisions (PTAwCP) and PTAs with provisions related to other environmental issues. Using panel data covering 165 countries over the period 1995 to 2012, controlling for endogeneity issues, our main result shows that PTAwCP statistically reduce the level of CO2, CH4 and N2O. This suggests that governments seem to comply with the climate-related commitments they made in the PTAs, what potentially helps tackling global warming. Moreover, findings show that to be effective in terms of mitigating climate change, a PTAwEP should contain climate-related commitments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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