Principle 12 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development contains aspirations for the role of trade policy in an open international economic system leading to sustainable development. Paradoxically, Principle 12 goes further than trade law disciplines in suggesting that countries...

As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate, more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable economy might look like. In spite of the success of the environmental movement in drawing attention to...