A Southeast Asian perspective on trade and climate change mitigation and adaptation

This policy brief examines climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts within ASEAN member states, specifically focusing on the agriculture, energy, and land-use, land-use change, and forestry sectors. It explores how international trade cooperation and trade-related policies can support these regional efforts and aims to provide a bottom-up, developing country perspective to counter the dominance of advanced economies in global trade and climate discussions at the WTO and other international settings.

• Southeast Asia is characterized as highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to its specific geography, the existence of extreme poverty, and a strong reliance on natural resources and agriculture.
• The policy paper analyzes ASEAN's adaptation and mitigation strategies within three priority sectors: energy, agriculture, and land-use, land-use change, and forestry, while identifying recommendations for multilateral and regional action through trade-related policies.
• The document asserts that current international dialogues on trade and climate change, including those at the WTO, are primarily driven by the proposals and policies of advanced economies, necessitating a more inclusive, bottom-up approach to include developing country priorities.

APA

A., P. (2023). A Southeast Asian perspective on trade and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs. https://tessforum.org/latest/a-southeast-asian-perspective-on-trade-and-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation

Chicago

A., Pham,. A Southeast Asian perspective on trade and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs, 2023. https://tessforum.org/latest/a-southeast-asian-perspective-on-trade-and-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{a2023southeast, author = {A., Pham,}, title = {{A Southeast Asian perspective on trade and climate change mitigation and adaptation}}, institution = {Forum on Trade, Environment, \& the SDGs}, year = {2023}, month = jan, url = {https://tessforum.org/latest/a-southeast-asian-perspective-on-trade-and-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }