Awaiting Climate Accord, Governments Toy with Dubious Measures
Motaal, Doaa Abdel
YaleGlobal, November 6, 2009, online edition
"In the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, developed and developing nations are already preparing themselves for the outcome, a multilateral deal or not. This approach is bound to harm the prospects for reversing global warming, for fostering free trade, and for ensuring competition, according to World Trade Organization Counselor Doaa Abdel Motaal. Many countries plan to enact unilateral measures to prevent domestic industries from losing competitiveness and to stem “carbon leakage,” the shift in emissions from countries that cap emissions to those that don’t. [...] If a congeries of unilateral measures get enacted, the potential for discord over tackling climate change is likely to become more pronounced. Such strife would do little to help the environment."
Doaa Abdel Motaal is counselor in the Office of the Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
Go to the article at:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/awaiting-climate-accord-governments-toy-dubious-measures
D3/06-09 Posted December 8, 2009
|
