Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead

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The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility, with no meaningful binding agreement in sight, as the global climate regime and the global trade policy regime represented by the WTO appear to be on a collision course. Following a review of the alternative architectures for the next Climate Change Agreement, the paper outlines four areas in which trade will play a role: as a purveyor of technological transfer; as a mechanism to separate where abatement takes place from who bears the cost of abatement; as a participation mechanism; and as a way to address the pressures for border adjustments. Political-economy considerations are invoked to predict that a target system with a carbon credit system will be preferable to a carbon tax or to a portfolio system of treaties.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: FERDI Working Paper ; No. P14

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Environment ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
• Thema: Commerce ; Changement Climatique

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Mathys, Nicole A. ; de Melo, Jaime
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)
• (wo): Clermont-Ferrand
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/269294
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ