Harvard Project Releases Discussion Brief on Climate-change and Trade Policy

Michael Mehling explores relationships among industrial policy, trade, and efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Among his conclusions are that climate action is now tied to the rise of industrial policy; border carbon measures are seeing increased interest but are also controversial as tools of climate action; and, while trade and climate cooperation have evolved separately, they are increasingly intersecting.

The brief was written as part of a larger project on climate-change and trade policy supported by Energy Foundation China (EFC). Mehling also wrote a longer paper on this topic that can be downloaded here.

Mehling is Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde School of Law and Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).