What does trade have to do with climate change?
What does trade have to do with climate change? / Harun Onder, VoxEU.org,12 September 2012
http://www.voxeu.org/article/what-does-trade-have-do-climate-change
As multilateral attempts for climate-change mitigation stall, the two-way relationship between trade and climate change is likely to come under further scrutiny. This column explains how liberalised trade has several climate-related consequences. It argues that trade policy could enforce mitigation policies but that multilateral conventions are crucial in preventing undesired protectionist consequences…