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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...

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Strategies to Balance Energy Security, Business, Trade and Sustainable Development

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021

Energy is pivotal for socio-economic and cultural development. Last century witnessed a drastic increase, on one hand on the consumption of energy and, on the other on greenhouse gases emissions. Traditionally, energy security has been linked with the need to guarantee supply and, in turn,...

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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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International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice (Executive Summary and Background Paper)

Carlson, Jonathan C. - 2014

This background paper to the Climate Legacy Initiative project assesses whether existing international environmental law is adequate to address the challenge of global climate change. It considers both current treaty rules governing climate change and customary principles of international...

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment : Climate Change Report

Knox, John H. - 2016

This report describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate-related actions. The...

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Environmental Laws and Sustainability : An Introduction

Dernbach, John C.; Mintz, Joel A. - 2015

This is an introduction to the special issue on environmental laws and sustainability of the on-line peer review journal, Sustainability. In this introduction, we attempt to synthesize key lessons from the issue’s ten substantive articles. These lessons involve the use of law to achieve...

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International Environmental Law and the Global South - Introduction

Gonzalez, Carmen G.; Atapattu, Sumudu - 2015

The unprecedented degradation of the planet’s vital ecosystems is among the most pressing issues confronting the international community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations (the North-South divide) have...

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When sustainable development meets international investment : painful collision or necessary contribution?

Ferreira, Agata - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 2, pp. 235-255

International investment has increasingly been subject to controversies and debates. Never more so then when international investment law is faced with sustainable development issues, particularly in the context of international investment arbitration. Given the characteristics of international...

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Nachhaltige Entwicklung - ein permanenter Spagat

Voogt, Sabina; Bennekom, Sander van - In: Die Zukunft des Welthandelssystems : Perspektiven und …, (pp. 27-48). 1999

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Investment for green growth : an analysis of the CAI environmental provisions

Qian, Xu - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 23 (2022) 4, pp. 628-650

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