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Exporting pollution

Itzhak Ben-David [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 05 March 2021

Anti-pollution laws penalise firms whose activities emit CO2. Itzhak Ben-David tells Tim Phillips that well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer countries where regulation isn’t so strict.

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Topics:  Environment [4]

Tags:  air pollution [5], CO2 emissions [6]

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/exporting-pollution?qt-quicktabs_cepr_policy_research=0

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/222967
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
[3] itpc://www.voxeu.org/rss.php?q=itunes_podcast
[4] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/environment
[5] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/2466
[6] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/676