An Overview of the European Union Emissions Trading System

Carbon pricing is an effective policy instrument for accelerating the transition to renewable energy. By internalizing the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon pricing can foster low-carbon technology innovation, international collaboration, and energy-climate policy synergies. Emissions trading is one method of carbon pricing. Emissions trading is a market-based mechanism for lowering CO2 and other…

The E-Commerce Protocol of the AfCFTA: Possible Considerations

Electronic commerce (‘E-commerce’) refers to commercial transactions occurring by way of electronic means. With the establishment of digital economies resulting in an increase of digitization, e-commerce is a megatrend that is re-designing economic relations worldwide. This new borderless method of transacting provides great opportunities to stimulate trade. In February 2020, the African Union Heads of…