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Canada : renewable energy ; implications for WTO law on green and not-so-green subsidies
Charnovitz, Steve; Fischer, Carolyn - 2014
In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario's feed-in tariff was challenged as a discriminatory investment-related measure and as a prohibited import substitution subsidy. The panel and Appellate Body agreed that Canada...
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Border adjustment mechanisms : elements for economic, legal, and political analysis
Bueb, Julien; Richieri Hanania, Lilian; Le Clézio, Alice - 2016
This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447295
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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Sustainable Development Goals vs Non-Discrimination in WTO Law : Does the End Justify the Means?
Sieber-Gasser, Charlotte; Kalra, Smriti; Vishwas Sheth, … - 2021
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their explicit reference to the WTO treaties offer a new incentive to rethink the regulatory structure of Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) and the scope of the General Exceptions in WTO law: Among others, the SDGs aim at overcoming the...
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Export restrictions and policy space for sustainable development : lessons from trends in the regulation of export restrictions (2012-2016)
Jiang, Fengan - 2018
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (GATT 1994) generally prohibits the World Trade Organization (WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786742
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EC Incentive Arrangements for Sustainable Development and Good Governance (GSP Plus) and WTO Law – Critical Analysis
Gruszczynski, Lukasz - 2013
obligations imposed by law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This analysis is carried out in light of the recent WTO ruling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163916
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World Trade Organization, Renewable Energy Subsidies and the Case of Feed-In Tariffs : Time for Reform Toward Sustainable Development?
Farah, Paolo Davide; Cima, Elena - 2016
Renewable energy subsidies are crucial for combatting climate change, and yet the world’s international legal … infrastructure is not designed to accommodate such subsidies. The world needs a renewable energy sector to develop and implement the … against each other: cultivation of renewable energy and prevention of unfair trade practices. The World Trade Organization …
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of … consequences of the global expansion of world trade and of the monetary and commercial translation of all interpersonal …, and in different parts of the world are just some of the most critical examples on how the existing systems are failing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123758
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of … consequences of the global expansion of world trade and of the monetary and commercial translation of all interpersonal …, and in different parts of the world are just some of the most critical examples on how the existing systems are failing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123865
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The WTO, Natural Resources, Trade, and Sustainable Development : Commentaries on Recent Trends in International Economic Law
Gonzalez Arreaza, Alejandro - 2017
'sustainable development' are adding new goals and limitations to PSNR. The recent case-law of the World Trade Organization (WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124646