This course will provide a framework for thinking about climate change and its consequences for international trade. The course aims to promote a better understanding of how we can better reconcile the competing objectives of international/global trade, measures on adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and poverty alleviation, eventually progressing SDG #13 goals in the Global South.

We will explore how climate change affects the global and regional trade policy in the Global South, which, depending on the different scenarios presented during the exercises, may present both new opportunities and threats through measures and implementation by multi-sectors stakeholders. Specific sector- and country-context case studies and exercises on hypothetical scenarios will be utilized to better understand how contemporary trade policies may influence climate adaptation and mitigation in the Global South.