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Olsen, Birgitte Egelund --- "Gaining intergovernmental acceptance: legal rules protecting trade" [2012] ELECD 1237; in Milne, E. Janet; Andersen, S. Mikael (eds), "Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) 192

Book Title: Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation

Editor(s): Milne, E. Janet; Andersen, S. Mikael

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848449978

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Gaining intergovernmental acceptance: legal rules protecting trade

Author(s): Olsen, Birgitte Egelund

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

To date, multilateral efforts to liberalize trade and prevent environmental degradation have proceeded largely along separate paths. However, these parallel regimes are more and more likely to come into closer contact with each other as environmental policies come to have significant economic effects. Environmental taxes are increasingly being used for the pursuit of environmental policy objectives. However, national environmental tax schemes may come into conflict with trade rules where they affect domestic and imported products differently. Concerns that prospective domestic measures might breach multilateral trade rules have presumably led to less environmentally ambitious regulatory frameworks. However, opportunities exist for making trade regulation and environmental taxation more complementary, and it would be possible for trade law and environmental law to work more closely together to avoid conflicts between their different interests. One integrative step could be to facilitate a coordinated approach to the taxation of carbon or energy, for example in multilateral environmental negotiations.


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