Trade liberalization and climate change

Abstract

International trade has major influence for climate change through the shift and production structure. The environmental protection agency and the World Trade Organisation should vigorously debate the interaction between free trade regime and global warming mitigation regime. The paper attempts to deliberate the measures which would contribute to facilitate the global climate negotiations by bringing mutual benefit for both developing countries and developed countries, from the point of view of international economics. The paper focuses on foreign aid, and clarifies why international aid for developing countries is needed for sustainable mutual economic growth through more liberalized world trade, which is compatible with the climate change mitigation.