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19 November 2010
Palais des Nations, Room XXIIILiving in a carbon-constrained future: trade and development implications of climate change
The imperative of climate change cannot be properly addressed without an integrated and inclusive approach that links it to development challenges. Fully understanding the nature and the different dimensions of the climate change challenge becomes essential to opening the way for an effective pro-development climate change policy. Climate change results from the stock of emissions accumulated in the common global atmosphere, the flow of emissions discharged which is closely correlated with current production and consumption patterns, and a variety of emission sources ranging from energy production and use, transport, industrial processes, to agriculture, deforestation, land use change, etc. The course will first provide an introduction to the economics of climate change and then analyze the implications of the emerging climate change regime for developing countries.
