Change in the German foreign trade climate

German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

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...

Trade Rules and Climate Change Policy:

Synergies and conflicts between climate change mitigation measures and trade policy and rules may result from: (a) competitiveness losses and/or gains, (b) potential discriminatory aspects of climate change measures which breach the fundamentals of WTO rules, (c) the creation of new types of trade barriers, but also of trade opportunities, and (d) the context in which climate change and trade p...

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...

Legitimizing Climate Policy: the “risk Con- Struct” of Global Climate Change in the German Mass Media

For at least a decade, global climate change has been a very important topic in German mass media coverage. Theories of media effects such as “cultivation” and “agenda setting” lead us to expect that climate change reporting will have an impact on the risk perception of the media audience. Furthermore, because of the medialization of politics, media reporting of climate change may be assumed to...