"Technical regulations and standards have existed since antiquity. They are the invisible gears that shape the world we live in. "They shape not only the physical world around us, but our social lives and even our very selves". All the products that are traded and available at stores comply with...

"The insightful book contributes to developing the architecture for a global climate agreement and, in doing so, seeks and proposes new approaches to climate change mitigation by linking it to the international trade system. The author suggests the adoption of a bottom-up approach to climate...

In recent years, the world trading system has been confronted by a range of new and developing challenges: the risk of climate change, the instability of the digital economy, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics, to name but a few. In this book, veteran trade...