Environment and trade: a review of issues and methods

Huang, Haixiao; Labys, Walter C.

doi:10.1504/ijgenvi.2002.000989

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“…Much attention has been paid to global environmental problems and the relationship between CO 2 emissions and trade liberalization policies in particular. The debate focuses on two different (but related) issues (Huang and Labys, 2001). The first, following the agenda of the Kyoto protocol, is the rising trend in carbon emissions.…”

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CO₂ emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

Cialani

2016

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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This paper examines the relationships among per capita CO 2 emissions, per capita GDP and international trade based on panel data sets spanning the period 1960-2008: one for 150 countries and the others for sub-samples comprising OECD and Non-OECD economies. We apply panel unit root and cointegration tests, and estimate a panel error correction model. The results from the error correction model suggest that there are long-term relationships between the variables for the whole sample and for Non-OECD countries. Finally, Granger causality tests show that there is bidirectional short-term causality between per capita GDP and international trade for the whole sample and between per capita GDP and CO 2 emissions for OECD countries.

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CO₂ emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

Cialani

2016

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…On the other hand, trade can be good for conservation and environment through the ''environmental Kuznets curve''-trade stimulates economic growth and richer people demand more conservation of stocks and protection of the environment which higher income countries can now afford to protect (Antweiler et al, 2001). The few studies of trade and the environment have produced mixed results (Huang and Labys, 2001). Recently, Van Meijl et al (2006) and Eickhout et al (2007) found that agricultural trade liberalisation may lead to large changes in agricultural land-use.…”

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The effect of agricultural trade liberalisation on land-use related greenhouse gas emissions

Verburg

Stehfest

Woltjer

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Global Environmental Change

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“…These food system-related economic activities bring benefits such as employment, food security, and further investment opportunities. Trade can, however, also have negative consequences on some dimensions of sustainability such as facilitating unhealthy dietary patterns and non-communicable diseases associated with nutrition transition [85][86][87][88][89] as well as increasing pressure on natural resources and subsequent environmental degradation [90]. In our case, while the relation appears positive overall and significantly stronger for middle-income countries, it weakens substantially for the higher values of trade flows observed for higher-income countries, suggesting that there may be an upper limit to the sustainability benefits offered by trade.…”

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Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis

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At present, our ability to comprehend the dynamics of food systems and the consequences of their rapid 'transformations' is limited. In this paper, we propose to address this gap by exploring the interactions between the sustainability of food systems and a set of key drivers at the global scale. For this we compile a metric of 12 key drivers of food system from a globally-representative set of low, middle, and high-income countries and analyze the relationships between these drivers and a composite index that integrates the four key dimensions of food system sustainability, namely: food security & nutrition, environment, social, and economic dimensions. The two metrics highlight the important data gap that characterizes national systems' statistics-in particular in relation to transformation, transport, retail and distribution. Spearman correlations and Principal Component Analysis are then used to explore associations between levels of sustainability and drivers. With the exception of one economic driver (trade flows in merchandise and services), the majority of the statistically significant correlations found between food system sustainability and drivers appear to be negative. The fact that most of these negative drivers are closely related to the global demographic transition that is currently affecting the world population highlights the magnitude of the challenges ahead. This analysis is the first one that provides quantitative evidence at the global scale about correlations between the four dimensions of sustainability of our food systems and specific drivers.

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Environment and trade: a review of issues and methods

Abstract: While the commercial trade between regions and nations has always been the subject

Cited by 19 publications

References 212 publications

CO₂ emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

CO₂ emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

The effect of agricultural trade liberalisation on land-use related greenhouse gas emissions

Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis

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Environment and trade: a review of issues and methods

Abstract: While the commercial trade between regions and nations has always been the subject

Cited by 19 publications

References 212 publications

CO2 emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

CO2 emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

The effect of agricultural trade liberalisation on land-use related greenhouse gas emissions

Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis

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CO₂ emissions, GDP and trade: a panel cointegration approach

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