?
European Practice of Building a Carbon-Free Economy
The paper aims to analyze the European concerns and approaches to environmental protection and climate change and determine the main trade regulation tools applied by the block. The research methodology is based on the following methods. The method of induction allowed studying different approaches to environmental protection and their historical evolution. The axiomatic approach was applied to determine the connectivity between climate change and Industry 4.0. The synthesis of the methods mentioned above allowed the authors to argue that new environmental issues have been actively integrated into the international trade regulations in recent years. The new concepts such as “green growth,” “green economy,” and “green course” are not just national concerns anymore; these concepts have become an integral part of the current trade negotiations agenda. These concepts are increasingly used as an argument to support the implementation of trade measures regarding market access to goods and services for exports of certain industrial products. This approach is called “green protectionism.” Based on the analysis, the authors substantiate that the European Union, which launched the Green Deal program in 2019, is now most actively forcing the adaptation of its national legislation following the goals set. At the current stage of increasing protectionist tendencies in the world economy, the improvement of environmental requirements is an effective tool to curb foreign competition in completely legitimate ways.
In book
