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Trade and Climate Change
What do we know about climate change? What is the relationship between trade and climate change? How does trade affect greenhouse gas emissions and can more open trade help to address climate change? What is the range of national measures that can contribute to global mitigation efforts? These are just some of the questions discussed by this report by the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme.
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The Report aims to improve understanding about the linkages between trade and climate
change. It shows that trade intersects with climate change in a
multitude of ways. For example,
governments may introduce a variety of policies, such as regulatory
measures and economic incentives, to address climate change. This complex web of measures may
have an impact on
international trade and the multilateral trading system.
The Report begins with a summary of the current state of scientific knowledge on climate
change and on the options available for responding to the challenge of
climate change. The
scientific review is followed by a part on the economic aspects of the
link between trade and
climate change, and these two parts set the context for the subsequent
parts of the Report,
which look at the policies introduced at both the international and
national level to address
climate change.
The part on international policy responses to climate change describes multilateral efforts to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate
change, and also
discusses the role of the current trade and environment negotiations in
promoting trade in technologies that aim to mitigate climate change.
The final part of the Report gives an overview of a range of national policies and measures that have been used in a number of countries to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase energy efficiency. It
presents key features
in the design and implementation of these policies, in order to draw a
clearer picture of their
overall effect and potential impact on environmental protection,
sustainable development and
trade. It also gives, where appropriate, an overview of the 澳门六合彩官网资料 rules
that may be relevant to
such measures.
Published in 2009
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