This book includes contributions by leading experts across the globe. Part 1 of the book focuses on the analysis of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, examines COP26, and questions the political process in the US for the creation of policy for meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reductions....

This article provides a legal analysis of climate migration and examines the potential impact of such migration on international trade. It is generally accepted that climate change will have widespread impacts and that people must be ready to adapt to those impacts. One of the ways people are...

Climate change mitigation has become one of the most relevant topics today, and it will continue for years to come. It is a concern that has implications in economics, law, science, human rights, technology, international relations and ethics, to name but a few fields of knowledge. Climate...

This paper argues that the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was doomed to face difficulties ab initio. It explains why this is the case by analyzing the Kyoto Protocol’s shortcomings and deficiencies. Moving the climate change agenda forward multilaterally...

This book is about how to make international trade greener for a sustainable and prosperous future. It examines whether international trade agreements can contribute to sustainable development. Whether international trade can contribute to sustainability is a novel, timely, and important...

The last few decades have witnessed widespread attempts by the international community to combat rising global temperatures. Without a doubt, instruments such as the Paris Agreement have proven essential in fighting climate change by promoting the use of renewable energy and energy transitions....

This book is an analysis of the European Union (EU) as a case study in a new plurilateral trade order. This book is a contribution to the EU’s external trade relations, which is a sub-field of the broader field of the EU international relations law. This book is not about EU trade law as seen...

This article analyzes European Union-China trade relations in the context of the current negotiations for a new comprehensive framework agreement between the European Union (EU) and the People’s Republic of China. China is a strong economic power with increasingly sophisticated production in...

January 2009 brought a stark reminder of the perils of European dependence on Russian natural gas. A cutoff of supplies connected in part to a pricing dispute between Russia and Ukraine, the crucial transit country for much of Russia’s gas, left millions of Europeans without heat and forced...

This chapter analyzes the legal and policy implications of the Doha Round, focusing on international trade in services. After an explanation of a Round and why it was necessary to have a new Round of international trade talks, the chapter analyzes the General Agreement on Trade in Services...