Some of Aaron Cosbey’s work on trade and climate change:
A Vision for International Trade in CO2-Intensive Materials: The role of carbon product requirements, (with Aylin Shawkat). Berlin: Agora Industry. 2024
The Proposed Foreign Pollution Fee Act. Commentary. Winnipeg: IISD. 2023.
How Trade Policy Can Support the Climate Agenda, (with Michael Jakob et al.) Science Vol. 376(6600), 1401-1403, 2022.
Stepping on the gas: The Ukraine war reshapes climate and energy policy. Sustainable Trade, Hinrich Foundation, April 12, 2022.
Trade and Climate Change: Working through the conflicts and synergies, in Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change, Michael Jakob (ed.). Edward Elgar. 2022.
“Reporting on the Impacts of Response Measures: Ghana case study,” (with Marina Monciatti and Andrei Marcu). Brussels: European Roundtable for Climate and a Sustainable Transition (ERCST), 2021.
“Trade and Climate Change: A key agenda for the G20,” (with Mohamed Abdelraouf, Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Susanne Dröge, Manfred Elsig, Ilaria Espa, and Jean-Frédéric Morin). T20 Policy Brief submitted to the G20. 2020.
“Paris Agreement’s Article 6 and the WTO: Points of Convergence,” (with Andrei Marcu) in CIGI online essay series Modernizing the World Trade Organization. Centre for International Governance Innovation. 2020.
“Treaty on Sustainable Investment for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Aligning international investment law with the urgent need for climate change action.” (with Martin D. Brauch et al.) Journal of International Arbitration Vol 36, pp 7-35, 2019.
“Trade and Climate Change: Issues for the G20 agenda.” Policy Brief on Trade and Environmental Policy #3. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung/ Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental. 2018.
“Treaty on Sustainable Investment for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation” (with Martin D. Brauch, Ivetta Gerasimchuk, Lourdes Sanchez and Yannick Touchette) Winner of the 2018 Stockholm Treaty Lab Prize. 2018.
“Climate policies, economic diversification and trade,” paper prepared for the UNCTAD Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting Implementing the Paris Agreement: Response measures, economic diversification and trade, October 3, 2017, Geneva. (UNCTAD/DITC/TED/2018/4) Geneva: UNCTAD.
“How Will a Revised NAFTA Deal with the Environment?” (with Howard Mann). CIGI Commentary, Toronto: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2017.
“The Trade Implications of the Paris COP21 Agreement” Commonwealth Secretariat (London) International Trade Working Paper No. 2016/17, 2016.
“The Paris Climate Agreement: What Implications for Trade?” Commonwealth Secretariat (London) Trade Hot Topics Series, Issue 129, 2016.
“Policy Case Study: Food Labeling,” Climate for Sustainable Growth Series. Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), 2015.
Trade and Green Economy Handbook (3rd ed.) (translated to Spanish, French, Russian and Mandarin), (editor and lead author), Winnipeg: IISD/UNEP, 2015.
“The Cost of Carbon Pricing: Competitiveness implications for the mining and metals industry” (with Lucy Kitson and Peter Wooders). London: International Council for Mining and Metals, 2013.
“Economic diversification in the context of the work programme of the UNFCCC Forum on the Implementation of Response Measures.” Background paper commissioned by the UNFCCC to the In-Forum Workshop on area (d): Exchanging experience and discussion of opportunities for economic diversification and transformation, June 4, 2013, Bonn.
“International Carbon Constraints: Trade-Related Risks and Opportunities for Canada.” Background report commissioned by Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, as input to “Framing the Future: Embracing the Low-Carbon Economy,” Climate Prosperity Series #6. Ottawa: NRTEE, 2012.
“Amicus Curiae Submission to the WTO on DS412: Canada – Certain measures affecting the renewable energy generation sector” (with various other authors). 2012.
“Agriculture and Trade in the Climate Change Negotiations.” Produced as part of IISD’s Food Security and Climate Change Initiative. Winnipeg: IISD. 2011.
“Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change on LDCs’ Export Trade.” London: Commonwealth Secretariat. 2011.
“Climate-Linked Tariffs and Subsidies: Economic aspects (competitiveness and leakage).” (with Peter Wooders). Background paper commissioned for the conference Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness: Issues for the WTO, organized by Graduate Institute, Geneva, WTO and World Bank, 16 – 18 June 2010, Geneva.
“Climate Change and International Investment Agreements: Obstacles or Opportunities?” (with Fiona Marshall and Deborah Murphy). Winnipeg: IISD. 2010.
“Achieving Consensus: Multilateral Trade Measures in Post-2012 Scenarios” in UNEP/ADAM (eds.) Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World. Geneva: UNEP/ADAM, 2009.
“How Will Climate Change Affect Trade’s Potential to Foster Development?” in Eija Palosuo (ed.) Rethinking Development in a Carbon-Constrained World: Development Cooperation and Climate Change. Helsinki: Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2009, pp. 86-99.
“Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness”. (with John Drexhage). In Eco-Innovation, International Trade, WTO and Climate: Key Issues for an Ecological Industrial Policy. (Documentation of a workshop on March 12, 2008). Berlin: Federal Environmental Agency, 2009.
Trade and Climate Change: Issues in Perspective (editor). Winnipeg: IISD, 2008.
“Trade Policy Tools and Instruments for Addressing Climate Change and Sustainable Development,” Scoping paper produced for the Trade Ministers’ Dialogue on Climate Change Issues, held in conjunction with UNFCCC COP 13, Kyoto Protocol MOP 3 Bali, Indonesia, December 8-9, 2007.
“Trade and Climate Change Linkages,” Scoping paper produced for the Trade Ministers’ Dialogue on Climate Change Issues, held in conjunction with UNFCCC COP 13, Kyoto Protocol MOP 3 Bali, Indonesia, December 8-9, 2007.
“Harnessing Globalization: Scaling Up Trade and Investment Policy’s Contribution to Climate Change Efforts.” Scoping paper produced as input to the Seoul, Santiago and Mexico high-level regional sessions on Scaling up Clean Investment as part of the Gleneagles Dialogue process. July 2007.
“Climate Change, Competitiveness and Trade.” (with Richard Tarasofsky). A Chatham House Report. London: Chatham House. 2007.
“Trade and Investment,” in Deborah Murphy et al. Climate Change and Foreign Policy: An Exploration of Options for Greater Integration. Commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark. Winnipeg: IISD, 2007.
“Climate Change and Competitiveness: A Survey of the Issues,” background paper to an experts’ workshop: Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness, Chatham House, London, March 30, 2005.
“Implications, Including for Development, of the Interface between Environment and Trade Policies for Oil Exporting Countries.” (with Lucas Assunçao and Sergio Saba) Geneva: UNCTAD, August 2003.
“The Kyoto Protocol and the WTO,” (Report of a seminar organized by IISD and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Dec. 1, 1999, Seattle). Winnipeg: IISD/Chatham House, 2000.