Part 1. Background to the Climate Problem -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Climate Challenge and its Consequences -- 3. Climate Protection Problems and Options for Action -- 4. Global Warming Perspectives -- 5. Perspectives on the Climate Debate and International Economic Aspects -- 6. The Wrong...

The De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and the environment, in the contexts of unprecedented climate change, bio-diversity loss and the global pandemic. In this seminal text exploring a wide range of...

Increased effort to cope with the rapidly emerging impacts of climate change is urgently needed. Whether adaptation bears the risk of inducing a negative feedback loop through its energy requirements has not been investigated. Here we examine the Nationally Determined Contributions submitted by...

A project as granted by UNCTAD to TradeLab on positive linkages between Climate mitigation and Trade. Along with 2 PhD students, I mapped 162 INDCs of countries as submitted to the UNFCCC and noted that almost all the mitigation actions were domestic trade policies assessable under the WTO. Main...

The Paris Agreement recognises the heterogeneity of approaches being implemented across jurisdictions and that parties may voluntarily engage in cooperative approaches involving use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes towards their nationally determined contributions. Many of...