International Trade and Climate Change PoliciesDuncan Brack Routledge, 2013 M10 11 - 164 pages Focusing on the likely impacts on trade of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, this book examines the actual and potential conflicts between whether liberalization of trade undermines the efforts of industrialised countries to mitigate climate change. It will be essential reading for environmental economists and those engaged in international environmental relations and policy. |
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... increase the use of new and renewable forms of energy and environmentally sound technologies, and phase out fiscal incentives and exemptions in greenhouse gasemitting sectors. They may well affect the costs of production of traded goods ...
... increase the use of new and renewable forms of energy and environmentally sound technologies, and phase out fiscal incentives and exemptions in greenhouse gasemitting sectors. They may well affect the costs of production of traded goods ...
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... increase greenhouse gas emissions (for example, for coal production) should be reduced and eventually eliminated; those which act to reduce them (for example, for renewable energy development) should be used more proactively. The ...
... increase greenhouse gas emissions (for example, for coal production) should be reduced and eventually eliminated; those which act to reduce them (for example, for renewable energy development) should be used more proactively. The ...
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... increase in response — and since this in turn influences factors such as ocean currents, cloud formation and ... increased temperature, and in 1908 the Swedish scientist Arrhenius published calculations predicting that a doubling in ...
... increase in response — and since this in turn influences factors such as ocean currents, cloud formation and ... increased temperature, and in 1908 the Swedish scientist Arrhenius published calculations predicting that a doubling in ...
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... increase of 0.3 ° C ( ± 0.15 ° C ) per decade , the fastest rate seen in the past 10,000 years . While the report studiously documented widespread uncertainties over the precise impacts of such temperature rises , it concluded that ...
... increase of 0.3 ° C ( ± 0.15 ° C ) per decade , the fastest rate seen in the past 10,000 years . While the report studiously documented widespread uncertainties over the precise impacts of such temperature rises , it concluded that ...
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... increased in atmospheric concentration by nearly 30 per cent from pre - industrial times , and methane concentrations ... increase beyond this point because of the thermal inertia of the oceans ; assuming stabilization in 2100 , only 50 ...
... increased in atmospheric concentration by nearly 30 per cent from pre - industrial times , and methane concentrations ... increase beyond this point because of the thermal inertia of the oceans ; assuming stabilization in 2100 , only 50 ...
Contents
Trade impacts of climate change policies | |
Energy efficiency standards and trade | |
Energy pricing and trade | |
International taxation of bunker fuels | |
Flexibility mechanisms and trade | |
Trade measures and the Kyoto Protocol | |
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International Trade and Climate Change Policies Duncan Brack,Michael Grubb,Craig Windram Limited preview - 2000 |
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