Trade and Climate Change

Posted July 1st, 2009 by Ian Jones
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This World Trade Organisation and United Nations Environment Programme (WTO/UNEP) report on 'Trade and Climate Change' examines the intersections between trade and climate change from four perspectives:
• the science of climate change
• economics
• multilateral efforts to tackle climate change
• national climate change policies and their effect on trade
Overall, the report highlights that there is scope under WTO rules for addressing climate change at the national level. However, the relevance of WTO rules to climate change mitigation policies, as well as the implications for trade and the environmental effectiveness of these measures, will very much depend on how these policies are designed and the specific conditions for implementing them.
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/trade_climate_change_e.h...