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Climate change and trade policy interaction : implications of regionalism
Asselt, Harro van - 2017
This report investigates the implications of regionalism for the interaction between trade and climate policy. It examines the implications of regional climate governance for international trade and conversely the implications of regional trade governance for climate change action. Regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695433
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Changes in Foreign Control Under Different Regulatory Climates : Multinationals in Canada
Baldwin, John R. - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of foreign control in Canadian non-financial industries. It focuses on changes in the share of assets and revenues under foreign control over a long-run period during which Canada's regulatory climate shifted from being more restrictive to more liberal in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158443
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Border carbon adjustment and international trade : a literature review
Condon, Madison; Ignaciuk, Adriana M. - 2013
economies of the world contemplating unilateral action to restrict their carbon emissions (while continuing to pursue co … counterbalanced by increased emissions elsewhere in the world — has also arisen. Various adjustments have been proposed, both in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230663
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A more sustainable energy strategy for India
Ahluwalia, Montek S.; Gupta, Himanshu; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2016
The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take some mitigation action. However even if all countries deliver on what they have promised by 2030 and progress thereafter continues only at the same rate global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508009
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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014
resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068619
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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Climate Change and Agriculture Policies : Managing Potential Risks to Agriculture Trade Liberalization
Dantas, Adriana Cunha - 2015
on Brazilian producers and exporters. The main goal of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038722
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Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy
Subramanian, Arvind - 2009
Th ere is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon prices. We confirm the findings of other research that unilateral emissions cuts by industrial countries will have minimal carbon leakage effects. However, output and exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153216
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UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions : Climate Change and Trade
Elkahwagy, Rana - 2017
Even though the Paris Agreement does not include any trade-related provisions, trade has the potential to play a major role in the implementation of the response measures enshrined by the Parties in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), while creating opportunities for many countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962806
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Climate Policies, Economic Diversification and Trade
Cosbey, Aaron - 2018
One of the key threads in the UNFCCC discussions has been reducing the negative impacts of the implementation of response measures. This paper explores how that might be accomplished by means of trade-related economic diversification policies. It explores the new realities of trade distributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925766