The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods

Sauvage, Jehan

doi:10.1787/5jxrjn7xsnmq-en

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“…They include economic growth, demography, environmental awareness, and the degree of ambition of environmental policies. Recent OECD work has shown in particular that stringent environmental policies go hand-in-hand with increased specialisation and exports in environmental goods, and there is no reason to think that services are any different (Sauvage, 2014). Headwinds, on the other hand, refer 6 Table A1 3 in De Melo and Vijil (2014) illustrates the "jointness" in the provision of environmental goods and environmental services using the example of 26 core environmental products.…”

Section: Policy Restrictions Affecting Trade In Environmentally Relatmentioning

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Trade in services related to the environment

Sauvage

Timiliotis²

2017

OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers

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This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD countries. The publication of this document has been authorised by Ken Ash, Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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Section: Policy Restrictions Affecting Trade In Environmentally Relatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Note: Environmental products are here taken to refer to the OECD's Combined List of Environmental Goods (CLEG), which contains about 250 six-digit HS lines. See Annex 1 in Sauvage (2014) for more information on the CLEG. Kernel density is a non-parametric method for estimating and smoothing probability density functions.…”

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Trade in services related to the environment

Sauvage

Timiliotis²

2017

OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers

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“…The results may be quite different for emerging and developing countries, a topic for future research. Future research may also consider the impacts of policy stringency on specific industry sectors and how a country's industrial composition is related to how it is impacted by policy stringency, as has been alluded to in past research (Albrizio et al 2014;Sauvage 2014).…”

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“…They concluded that the overall effects of environmental polices on trade patterns were very small over the 20-year period with some industries coming out ahead and others losing. A similar study used the EPS index to confirm a positive relationship between more stringent environmental policies and a country's export of environmental goods and services due to the effect of the policies on market size (Sauvage 2014). 3 In sum, past research reveals that the impact of environmental policy on a country or region's economy may be either positive, negative or close to neutral.…”

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Does green policy pay dividends?

Aziz

Hossain

Lamb

2021

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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While there is a near global consensus about the need to address climate change, most countries are hesitant to employ sufficiently stringent policies in fear of sacrificing economic growth. The objective of this research is to examine the impact of environmental policy on economic growth, using the OECD's Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index across 21 OECD countries from 1990 to 2014. An augmented Solow Model with the inclusion of variables to represent human capital, trade openness and the EPS index is used to assess whether policy stringency affects growth with empirical analysis comprised of a pooled mean group estimator, dynamic OLS, fixed effects and pooled OLS to estimate the short and long run effects. The results reveal that policy stringency negatively affects economic growth in the short run but pays dividends of positive growth in the long run. There appears to be a threshold level of the EPS, beyond which the dividend is realized in the long run. The results are expected to be of interest to policy makers who strive to address climate change without trading off economic growth.

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“…Finally, removing barriers to trade in environmental goods and services could possibly encourage environmental sound management in waste. The OECD study by Sauvage (2014) indicates that, in 2011, 9% of global trade in environmental goods concerned those related to the management of solid and hazardous waste and recycling systems. To this end, international trade could possibly contribute to the transition towards a circular economy.…”

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International Trade and the Transition to a More Resource Efficient and Circular Economy

2018

OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers

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The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods

Cited by 16 publications

References 22 publications

Trade in services related to the environment

Trade in services related to the environment

Does green policy pay dividends?

International Trade and the Transition to a More Resource Efficient and Circular Economy

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