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Weishaar, Stefan E.; Chen, Ruohong --- "Carbon labels: climate change regulation and legal risks and opportunities under WTO law" [2017] ELECD 1137; in Weishaar, E. Stefan; Philipsen, Niels; Xu, Wenming (eds), "Regulatory Reform in China and the EU" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 235

Book Title: Regulatory Reform in China and the EU

Editor(s): Weishaar, E. Stefan; Philipsen, Niels; Xu, Wenming

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785368530

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Carbon labels: climate change regulation and legal risks and opportunities under WTO law

Author(s): Weishaar, Stefan E.; Chen, Ruohong

Number of pages: 30

Abstract/Description:

Market-based instruments such as emissions trading systems put a price on carbon emissions as a way of addressing climate change. Increasing production costs have led to fears of carbon leakage and have generated increased interest in WTO law, in particular in the area of border tax adjustments and subsidies. Research in the area of carbon labels was more in vogue several years ago, but owing to the recent developments in WTO case law regarding Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), and in light of the proliferation of Emissions Trading Systems around the globe, it is high time to re-examine carbon labels and how they are to be assessed from a law and economics perspective. This chapter explores the legal risks and regulatory opportunities of carbon labels under WTO law, and whether WTO law follows law and economic insights.