TY - BOOK TI - International trade and climate change : : economic, legal, and institutional perspectives T2 - Environment and development SN - 9780821372258 U1 - 382. PY - 2008/// CY - Washington, D.C. : PB - Thaw World Bank, KW - CAMBIOS CLIMATICOS - ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS KW - COMERCIO EXTERIOR KW - COMERCIO EXTERIOR - ASPECTOS AMBIENTALES N1 - Economía N2 - For developing countries, broadening trading opportunities is essential to promote economic growth and fight poverty. Over the next decade, these countries will greater integration into the world trading system.; International Trade and Climate Change: Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives provides a comprehensive look, from economic, legal, and institutional perspectives, at the intersections and potential synergies between climate change objectives and international trade obligations. The book identifies the key issues at stake, where they mesh and where they do not, as well as opportunities for aligning development and energy policies in way that could stimulate production, trade, and investment in cleaner technology options.; Thus far, the trade and environmental policy agendas of the countries governments (as well as the development institutions serving them) have mostly run on separate track. Yet if development in these countries is to be truly sustainable, the means of growth and poverty reduction must leave a smaller environmental footprint. ER -