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Legal Admissibility and Consequences of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in the European ETS

EU
Environmental Law & Governance

The project examines the legal admissibility, and in particular the admissibility under public international economic law, of a CO2 border adjustment mechanism in the EU ETS. The Öko-Institut examines potential national and international standards for monitoring, control and verification of emissions produced abroad and discusses their advantages and disadvantages from a practical perspective as well as from the perspective of public international law.

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Status of project

End of project: 2023

Dr. Peter Gailhofer

Senior Researcher Environmental Law & Governance

Tel.:Phone: +49 30 405085-352

p.gailhofer@oeko.de

Project staff

Verena Graichen

Senior Researcher Energy & Climate

Funded by

German Environment Agency (UBA)

Project partners

Ecologic Institut gGmbH

Which rules and standards for calculating and certifying product-related emissions?

Monitoring, Reporting and Verification in a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

November 2023

The EU has adopted legislation that introduces a Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism (CBAM) to impose similar costs for embedded carbon emissions on imports as those faced by production covered by the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This plan raises complex issues regarding practical and

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