Format:
1 online resource (175 pages)
ISBN:
9780821372265
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9780821372258
Content:
Climate change remains a global challenge requiring international collaborative action. Another area where countries have successfully committed to a long-term multilateral resolution is the liberalization of international trade. Integration into the world economy has proven a powerful means for countries to promote economic growth, development, and poverty reduction. The broad objectives of the betterment of current and future human welfare are shared by both global trade and climate regimes. Yet both climate and trade agendas have evolved largely independently through the years, despite their mutually supporting objectives. Since global emission goals and global trade objectives are shared policy objectives of most countries, and nearly all of the World Bank's clients, it makes sense to consider the two sets of objectives together. This book is one of the first comprehensive attempts to look at the synergies between climate change and trade objectives from economic, legal, and institutional perspectives. It addresses an important policy question - how changes in trade policies and international cooperation on trade policies can help address global environmental spillovers, especially GHG emissions, and what the (potential) effects of (national) environmental policies that are aimed at global environmental problems might be for trade and investment. It explores opportunities for aligning development and energy policies in such a way that they could stimulate production, trade, and investment in cleaner technology options.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Environment and Development -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Overview -- Introduction -- Technology Options to Stabilize Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- The Debate on Trade and the Environment Revisited -- Focus and Results of This Study -- Findings and Recommendations -- Findings -- Industrial competitiveness in Kyoto Protocol-implementing countries suffers more from energy efficiency standards than from carbon taxation policies -- The effects of carbon taxation policies on industrial competitiveness are often offset by "policy packages." -- Some evidence supports relocation (leakage) of carbon-intensive industries to developing countries -- Trade measures can be justified only under certain conditions -- The proposed EU "Kyoto tariff" may hurt the United States' trade balance -- Varied levels of tariff and nontariff barriers (NTBs) are impediments to the diffusion of clean energy technologies in developing countries -- Recommendations -- A closer examination of the "policy bundle" or package associated with energy taxation is warranted -- It would be useful at the outset for trade and climate regimes to focus on a few areas where short-term synergies could be exploited -- Removal of tariff and nontariff barriers can increase the diffusion of clean technologies in developing countries -- Streamlining of intellectual property rights, investment rules, and other domestic policies will aid in widespread assimilation of clean technologies in developing countries -- The huge potential for trade between developing countries (South-South trade) in promoting clean energy technology in those countries needs to be explored more -- Clean technology trade would greatly benefit from a systematic alignment of harmonization standards.
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Overview; Boxes; Figures; CHAPTER 2 Climate Change Policies and International Trade: Challenges and Opportunities; Tables; CHAPTER 3 Beyond Kyoto: Striving for a Sustainable Energy Future in Developing Countries; CHAPTER 4 Opportunities for Win-Win-Win: Liberalizing Trade in Environmental Goods and Services; CHAPTER 5 Conclusions and Recommendations; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821372258
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821372258
Language:
English
