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About the Book The global community stands at a critical crossroads marked by escalating environmental degradation, intensifying climate change, and increasingly complex trade dynamics. These phenomena do not occur in isolation; rather, they are deeply interlinked and underpinned by historical patterns of exploitation, uneven development, and entrenched global inequalities. While developed countries have reaped the benefits of industrialization and resource exploitation, often largely as a result of historical colonialism and modern-day neocolonialism, developing countries often find themselves disproportionately bearing the costs of environmental and economic crises. This paper explores the current environmental, climate change, and trade trends; analyzes their historical and contemporary causes and effects; demonstrates how they reflect longstanding systemic inequities between the Global North and the Global South in global climate governance, the international trade system, climate technologies, and capital ownership; and outlines key considerations for international cooperation and collective action among developing countries. VICENTE PAOLO B. YU III is a Senior Legal Adviser of the Third World Network, Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Warwick. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Interrelated Polycrisis of Income Inequality, Environmental Degradation, and Social Inequity 3. Historical and Present-Day Causes of Systemic Inequity in International Trade and Climate Policy Regimes A. Systemic Inequity in Global Climate Governance B. Systemic Inequity in the International Trade System C. Systemic Inequity in Climate Technologies D. Systemic Inequity in Capital Ownership and Its Impact on Investment, Trade, and Patent Ownership in Climate Technologies 4. Geopolitics, Trade, Climate Policy, and Sustainable Development: Intersections in a Multipolar World 5. International Cooperation as the Vehicle for Addressing Systemic Inequity 6. The Need for Collective Action Among Developing Countries to Address Systemic Inequity 7. Conclusion Endnotes
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