A high - carbon partnership? : Chinese-Latin American relations in a carbon-constrained world

Edwards, Guy
Roberts, J. Timmons

2014

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China's rapidly increasing investment, trade and loans in Latin America may be entrenching high-carbon development pathways in the region, a trend scarcely mentioned in policy circles. This paper addresses three examples, including Chinese investments in Venezuela's oil sector and a Costa Rican oil refinery, and Chinese investment in and purchases of Brazilian soybeans. We pose the question of whether there is a tie between China's role in opening up vast resources in Latin America and the way those nations make national climate policy and how they behave at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations.

CHINA; INVERSIONES; AMERICA LATINA; INDUSTRIA DEL PETROLEO; DIOXIDO DE CARBONO; CAMBIO CLIMATICO;