Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade

International Trade and the Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

This paper has three messages mainly, which are observed in a simple model of climate change, international trade and regional adaptation. First, trade can be viewed as a kind of adaptation to climate change and variability, as trade can help to reduce direct impacts of global climate change on a region’s welfare. In particular, the less affected and the richer nations are, the more they can pr...

Games of Climate Change with International Trade

We analyse games of greenhouse gas emission reduction in which the emissions and the emission reduction costs of one country depend on other countries’ emission abatement. In an analytically tractable model, we show that international trade effects on costs and emissions can either increase or decrease incentives to reduce emissions and to cooperate on emission abatement; in some specifications...

Global Forum on Trade Trade and Climate Change

* The views expressed in this study are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of any of its Member governments. Executive Summary Concern over climate change has stimulated interest in estimating the total amount of greenhouse gasses (GHG) produced during the different stages in the ―life cycle‖ of goods and services — i.e. their production, processing, transpo...

International Approaches to Global Climate Change Richard

International Approaches to Global Climate Change