Every once in while, in any debate, new evidence emerges to challenge our thinking. And if the evidence is overwhelming, it can even provoke a turning point in the debate. This is the point that the debate on trade and climate change has reached with the new evidence that Hertwhich, Peters, Caldeira and Davis have put on the table on emissions consumed. Looking at the world through an emissions consumption prism instead of the Kyoto Protocol’s prism of “emissions production,” they discover that the developed world has actually increased its emissions in the past couple of decades instead of reducing them. Their work demonstrates that the reductions called for by the Kyoto Protocol have found themselves negated by the emissions that the developed world has imported from other corners of the globe. In other words, that the world may have engaged in no more than a process of emissions offshoring. This article seeks to bring this evidence to the attention of trade negotiators, and to contextualize these findings in the realm of the on-going trade and climate change debate. It reaches the conclusion that high level dialogue between trade, environment and climate change ministers is urgent since the integration of international trade into unilateral climate mitigation action is likely to become reality.