International Trade Policies and Climate Change Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • P. K. Rao

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3. The World Trade Organization and Climate Change

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4. Environmental Goods and Services Negotiations: WTO

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5. Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Trade Policies

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6. Pragmatic Next Steps

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7. Back Matter

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This work offers a synthesis of the current approaches toward an integration of international trade and climate change, with a view to fostering potential improvements in policies and institutions affecting these. A number of pragmatic measures are proposed with reference to the WTO and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regimes, which are expected to contribute toward enhanced climate change governance, as well as promoting international trade.

• Carbon Leakage
• Climate Change
• International Trade
• UNFCCC
• WTO
• Climate change management

• International Development Consultant, Princeton, USA

  P.K. Rao

The author has published several books and papers on climate change, trade and sustainable development; he teaches at Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Among the book publications are. "The Architecture of Green Economic Policies" (Heidelberg: Springer, 2010), "International Environmental Law and Economics" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), "The World Trade Organization and the Environment" (London: Macmillan, 2000), "Sustainable Development: Economic and Policy" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

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