Climate and trade: why climate change calls for fundamental reforms in world trade policies
This study demonstrates that the imminent danger of climate change necessitates fundamental reforms in world trade regulation. The decades old aim of liberalising trade between countries and creating a free world market runs counter to climate protection. What used to be controversially debated has now been empirically proven: the expansion of markets and trade relations fuels climate change. Transnational product chains, which fan out the production of one product to a dozen or more locations across the world, may lower business costs