2011년 12월 남아프리카공화국 더반에서 개최된 제17차 당사국총회(COP17)에서 2020년 이후의 새로운 기후변화체제 구축에 대한 합의를 도출하였습니다. 따라서 향후 국제기후변화체계는 논의 양상과 방식에 다양하고도...

This article further develops a framework of Brander and Spencer (1984) by adding Border Carbon Adjustments (BCA) to compensate for cost differences caused by emissions reduction among countries. On a level playing field, BCA is one-directional in that only a country with a more stringent carbon...

As digital trade expands worldwide, the importance of policy factors in digital trade is also garnering attention. However, the effectiveness of digital trade-related policies on digital trade flow is empirically under-investigated because of challenging data requirements. To overcome this, we...

Trade-related issues such as market access and tariff elimination or reduction have been the main concerns of free trade agreements or FTAs since the early 2000s. With more attention recently given to the concept of sustainable development, however, a growing number of countries start to share a...

With only a few months left until the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the international community is actively in the process of arriving at a global development agenda for the post-2015 period. One of the most significant features of the current discussion on the...

Four years ago in Cancun, the parties to the UNFCCC gathered around for two major decisions. To support developing countries in responding to climate change, the parties agreed to scale up climate finance to 100 billion dollars per year by 2020, and to establish a dedicated fund for climate...

In conjunction to the UN General Assembly held in September 2019, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterrez convened the first UN Climate Action Summit. Recognizing that the international community has so far failed to adequately combat the causes and consequence of climate change, the Summit was...