No Evidence of Carbon Leakage, OECD and MIT Say

The relocation of manufacturing plants from developed countries that cap and charge greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to countries that don’t charge for GHG emissions-a concept known as carbon leakage-does not pose a major threat to industry’s competitiveness, says the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD; Paris). OECD’s findings are shared by MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (Cambridge, MA) which says it has not identified a single plant in the European Union (EU) that has been closed as a...

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