Hi folks, Here are the compiled responses to my query on climate and trade. Thanks for the help and I hope you're enjoying autumn or spring, depending on the hemisphere!
Best, dgwebster Forwarded conversation Subject: climate and trade liberalization? ---------- From: *peleg kremer* <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:35 AM To: [email protected] My adviser, Dr. Yda Schreuder wrote a book last year entitled The Corporate Greenhouse that maybe of interest. http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4271 Best regards, Peleg -- Peleg Kremer Doctoral Candidate and Research Associate Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware E-mail: [email protected] ---------- From: *Diarmuid Torney* <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:53 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Hi DG, We met at ISA earlier this year. I hope you're keeping well! On your request, the two organisations doing the most work on this topic are IISD in Canada (see, for example, http://www.iisd.org/trade/) and ICTSD in Geneva (see especially their work on climate change: http://ictsd.org/climate-change/). Both have published a lot on topics relevant to your student's research questions and would be a great place to start. I spent a couple of months last year based at ICTSD, which is a very interesting and helpful organisation - let me know if your student would like an introduction to someone there. Aaron Cosbey is the person who seems to have done most work at IISD on this topic. In fact, he sent a notification to the Climate-L list on 19 September about a couple of new IISD publications in this area, including one that grabbed my attention which suggests that the WTO "environmental goods and services" negotiations under the Doha round could at most result in a reduction of 0.1% - 0.8% of fossil fuel based emissions in 2030 - and that's using optimistic assumptions! I can forward the email to you if you didn't receive it. Best wishes Diarmuid Diarmuid Torney PhD candidate in International Relations University of Oxford Tel: +86-134-366-07121 (CHINA, Sept-Oct 2010 only) +44-7726-105-014 (UK) +353-86-3630-4690 (IRELAND) Email: [email protected] ---------- From: *Paul Steinberg* <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Hi DG, A very nice general intro, not with respect to climate per se: Liverman, Diana M. and Silvina Vilas. 2006. Neoliberalism and the Environment in Latin America. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31:327–63. Paul Paul F. Steinberg Associate Professor of Political Science & Environmental Policy http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, & the Arts 301 East Platt Boulevard Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 91711 tel. 909-607-3840 ---------- From: *Lorraine Elliott* <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM To: [email protected] That's interesting. My class with my MA GEP students today is actually on climate change and trade ... more specifically on BTAs but they have been asked to do some background reading as well. I've included below the readings for this topic - they might not all be directly relevant to the detail of your student's specific questions but might provide some context if she hasn't already seen them. UNEP and the WTO have also released a joint paper on environment/trade more generally and there is a section on climate/trade in the 2010 World Development Report. Cheers Lorraine Biermann, Frank and Rainer Brohm (2005) ‘Border adjustments on energy taxes: a possible tool for European policymakers in implementing the Kyoto Protocol?’ *Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung* 74(2): 249–258; available at http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen_paydocs/61/43452/diw_vjh_05-2-11.pdf Cosbey, Aaron (2008) *Border tax adjustment*, Background Paper, Trade and Climate Change Seminar, Copenhagen, 18-29 June (available at http://www.gmfus.org/doc/economics/GMF-Border.pdf) Hufbauer, Gary Clyde and Jisun Kim (2009) *The WTO and climate change: challenges and options*, paper prepared for the Inaugural Conference of Thinking Ahead on International Trade (TAIT): Challenges Facing the World Trade System (September 17-18, 2009), organized by the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, in collaboration with the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (available online) Izard, Catherine, Christopher Weber and Scott Matthews (2010) ‘Scrap the carbon tariff’, *Nature Reports*, 4: 10-11 (available at http://www.nature.com/climate/2010/1001/pdf/climate.2010.132.pdf) Zelli, Fariborz and Harro van Asselt (2010) ‘The overlap between the UN climate regime and the World Trade Organization: lessons for climate governance beyond 2012’, in Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg and Fariborz Zelli (eds) *Global Climate Governance beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation * (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Brewer, Thomas L. (2008) *The trade and climate change joint agenda*, Working Document no. 295 (Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies). Chambers, W. Bradnee (2001) ‘International trade law and the Kyoto Protocol: potential incompatibilities’ in W. Bradnee Chambers (ed.) *Inter-linkages: the Kyoto Protocol and the international trade and investment regimes*(Tokyo: United Nations University Press) Cosbey, Aaron (ed) (2008) *Trade and climate change: issues in perspective*(Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development). Cosbey, Aaron and Richard Tarasofsky (2007) *Climate change, competitiveness and trade* (London: Chatham House/The Royal Institute of International Affairs). Matto, Aditya et al. (2009) Reconciling climate change and trade Policy, CGD Working Paper 189 (Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development) available at http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423204 World Bank (2007) *International trade and climate change: economic, legal and institutional perspectives* (Washington DC: The World Bank) Professor Lorraine Elliott Department of International Relations School of International, Political and Strategic Studies College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA e: [email protected] t: +61 2 61250589 f: +61 2 61258010 'Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day to day living that wears you out', Anton Chekhov ---------- From: *CARLARNE, CINNAMON* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM To: [email protected] David Wirth would probably be a great contact! ( http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/wirthd.html) Cinnamon Cinnamon P Carlarne Assistant Professor School of Law & School of the Environment University of South Carolina 701 S. Main Street Columbia, South Carolina 29208 803-777-3611 [email protected] http://law.sc.edu/faculty/carlarne/ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *DG Webster *Sent:* Monday, September 27, 2010 10:29 AM Hi Folks, ---------- From: *Matthew Paterson* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:17 PM To: [email protected], [email protected] Hi The International Institute for Sustainalbe Development (the folks that publish ENB) have been doing a big project on trade and climate with some interesting analyses, at least from presentations I’ve seen – check out their website at iisd.ca. Matthew -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 And http://matpaterson.wordpress.com/ Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics http://www.mitpressjournals.org/gep Latest books "Climate capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy" (with Peter Newell) http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521194857 And "Cultural Political Economy" (edited, with Jacqueline Best) http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Cultural-Political-Economy-isbn9780415489324 ------------------------------ *Reply-To: *<[email protected]> *Date: *Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:28:58 -0400 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/faculty/webster.html<http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eenvs/faculty/webster.html> <http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eenvs/faculty/webster.html><http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eenvs/faculty/webster.html> ---------- From: *DG Webster* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:59 PM To: Diarmuid Torney <[email protected]> Great leads, thanks! Hope to see you again at ISA 2011! dgwebster ---------- From: *Lynn Wagner* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:00 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]> Cc: Pam Chasek <[email protected]> Hi, I think you would want to look at the www.iisd.org website. www.iisd.ca has Earth Negotiations Bulletin meeting coverage and related projects, while the iisd.org website is for the IISD Winnipeg- and Geneva-based research side. The trade project has material here http://www.iisd.org/trade/ and trade and climate material here http://www.iisd.org/trade/crosscutting/. These folks also have a big Global Subsidies Initiative project right now http://www.globalsubsidies.org/ Lynn ***************************************** *Lynn Wagner, PhD* *Manager, Knowledge Management Products* *Writer/Editor, MEA Bulletin and Earth Negotiations Bulletin* *IISD Reporting Services* ** Tel: + 1 703 534 3754 Cell: + 1 703 967 4963 E-mail: [email protected] *International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)* www.iisd.org *IISD Reporting Services - Earth Negotiations Bulletin* www.iisd.ca *MEA Bulletin* http://www.iisd.ca/email/mea-l.htm Climate-L.org http://www.climate-l.org *Subscribe for free to our publications* http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm ***************************************** Notice:This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyrighted. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the author.** *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Matthew Paterson *Sent:* Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:17 PM *To:* [email protected]; [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [gep-ed] climate and trade liberalization? -- D.G. Webster Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Program Dartmouth College 6182 Steele Hall Hanover, NH 03755 phone: 603-646-0213 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/faculty/webster.html
