ETS COMPETITIVENESS: A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

摘要

Competitiveness is a wholeeconomy issue and it is crucial to understand the EU-wide costs and benefits of carbon leakage exemptions. Our study found that only a few sectors and plants with particular technologies or particular locations in the EU would be significantly impacted if they had to pay for carbon costs. The benefits of phasing out compensation for carbon leakage are a net increase in European GDP and jobs and a lower cost of decarbonisation.