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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... least one form of unnecessary international tension and conflict can be avoided. In this respect, few areas of international relations present a greater challenge than ensuring consistency between multilateral trade agreements and ...
... least one form of unnecessary international tension and conflict can be avoided. In this respect, few areas of international relations present a greater challenge than ensuring consistency between multilateral trade agreements and ...
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... least 5 per cent by the period 2008–2012. In November 1998, the Buenos Aires Plan of Action was agreed to for finalizing the Protocol's outstanding details by the end of the year 2000. The negotiation of the mechanisms to implement the ...
... least 5 per cent by the period 2008–2012. In November 1998, the Buenos Aires Plan of Action was agreed to for finalizing the Protocol's outstanding details by the end of the year 2000. The negotiation of the mechanisms to implement the ...
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... least, the climate change agreements contain no specific details on the precise nature of either the domestic measures to implement emission reductions or the flexibility mechanisms. In fact, their description of the domestic measures ...
... least, the climate change agreements contain no specific details on the precise nature of either the domestic measures to implement emission reductions or the flexibility mechanisms. In fact, their description of the domestic measures ...
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... least for the level of commitments agreed at Kyoto that these probably exaggerate the scale of trade impacts. Raising energy costs to energy-intensive manufacturing could result in these activities migrating to other countries, but ...
... least for the level of commitments agreed at Kyoto that these probably exaggerate the scale of trade impacts. Raising energy costs to energy-intensive manufacturing could result in these activities migrating to other countries, but ...
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... least current energy efficiency standards and labels, and their associated testing and certification systems, pose few if any barriers to trade. Trade barriers would be minimized, of course, by the harmonization of standards, but there ...
... least current energy efficiency standards and labels, and their associated testing and certification systems, pose few if any barriers to trade. Trade barriers would be minimized, of course, by the harmonization of standards, but there ...
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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