Posts Tagged ‘trading routes’
Climate Change and Food
NTU runs a Centre for Trade and Negotiations, with some articles available at
http://www.tfctn.org.sg/newsroom.htm
While many articles provide familiar background expositions, the most interesting is probably “Tackling the challenges to Trade” by Barry Desker / Deborah Kay Elms, which seeks to link Climate Change with Trade. They write: shifts in patterns of trade could come from (1) climate change impacts farmers in developing world disproportionately (2) firms relocate to states with lax environmental policies (3) environmental negotiations tied with trade negotiations, thereby altering cost/benefit calculus in trade policy.
Arctic Ice Melt
The Arctic is melting much faster than anticipated, so what’s the impact of sustained shipping from Northern Europe/USA to North Asia via the Arctic instead of Singapore? Peter Schwartz doesn’t think it would impact Singapore that much because it’s only seasonal shipping when we last asked him, but what do you think? The actual slideshare is here.
Let’s start posting and sharing
Hi everyone, it was nice meeting up today and let’s just kickstart it with posting and sharing articles, videos etc related to future of trade. I love Zhi Jia saying “It must make us uncomfortable!” and that’s the spirit of enquiry that’s very beneficial in pushing the boundaries beyond the known unknowns to the unknown unknowns for this topic. Gambatte! 
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