Exploring the trade impacts of consumer-facing climate policies

Consumption-based climate policies could complement production-based tools and help to address carbon embedded in international trade. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind today and responding to it will require a significant scale-up of climate action through a wide range of mitigation tools. To date, however, the majority of mitigation policies target production patterns. This is in part a reflection of current accounting frameworks that are based on assessments of domestic emissions.

CLIMATE CHANGE BIORES, Volume 9 - Number 5

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