While trade exacerbates climate change, it is also a central part of the
The Trade and Climate Change Nexus The Trade and
solution because it has the potential to enhance mitigation and adaptation.
This timely report explores the different ways in which trade and climate
change intersect. Trade contributes to the emissions that cause global Climate Change Nexus
warming and is itself also affected by climate change through changing
comparative advantages. The report also confronts several myths
concerning trade and climate change. The Urgency and Opportunities
for Developing Countries
The Trade and Climate Change Nexus: The Urgency and Opportunities for
Developing Countries focuses on the impacts of, and adjustments to,
climate change in developing countries and on how future trade
opportunities will be affected by both the changing climate and the policy Paul Brenton and Vicky Chemutai
responses to address it. The report discusses how trade can provide the
goods and services that drive mitigation and adaptation. It also addresses
how climate change creates immense challenges for developing countries,
but also new opportunities to promote trade diversification in the transition
to a low-carbon world. Suitable trade and environmental policies can Brenton and Chemutai
offer effective economic incentives to attain both sustainable growth and
poverty reduction.
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CLIMATE CHANGE NEXUSTHE TRADE AND
CLIMATE CHANGE
NEXUS
The Urgency and Opportunities for
Developing Countries
Paul Brenton and Vicky Chemutai