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Business responsibilities and investment treaties

Gaukrodger, David - 2021

Investment treaty policy increasingly interacts with business responsibilities. This scoping paper first surveys the converging approaches to responsible business conduct (RBC) and business and human rights (BHR) as reflected in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the United...

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Fragmentation and the nexus between the WTO and the ECT in global energy governance : a legal-institutional analysis twenty years later

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 16 (2015) 3, pp. 389-435

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Modernising the Energy Charter Treaty : an opportunity to enhance legal certainty in investor-state dispute settlement

Verburg, Cees - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 20 (2019) 2/3, pp. 425-454

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The trade implications of the Paris COP21 Agreement

Cosbey, Aaron - 2016

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Formation of climate coalitions and preferential free trade : the case for participation linkage

Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2022

We study the endogenous formation of climate coalitions linked to a preferential free trade arrangement. In a multi-stage strategic trade and participation game, coalition and fringe countries dispose of a discriminatory tariff on dirty imports as well as emission permits imposed on domestic...

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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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WTO Rules Can Prevent Climate Change Mitigation for Agriculture

Häberli, Christian - 2016

This paper asks how countries can implement their commitments to limit the increase in the global average temperature under the recent Paris Agreement on Climate Change for agriculture. An initial examination of the relevant trade rules and case law indicates that they appear unable to legally...

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Climate Change and Renewable Energy as a Super Trump for EU Trade Law. However All Essent Clear

van Calster, Geert - 2014

Essent, Joined Cases C-204/12 to C-208/12, in conjunction with Case C-573/12 Ålands Vindkraft, completes the promotion of climate change governance as a super trump in the application of European Union trade law. The cycle arguably started with Outokompu Oy, followed by PreussenElektra. In...

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Climate neutral production, free allocation of allowances under emissions trading systems, and the WTO : how to secure compatibility with the ASCM

Ismer, Roland; Asselt, Harro van; Haverkamp, Jennifer; … - 2021

. For governments' support measures to be consistent with their World Trade Organization obligations, they need to be … very likely not amount to a subsidy under the ASCM. In a similar vein, support for climate-neutral installations through … CCfDs could be designed in such a way that it confers no benefit, so that it would also not constitute a subsidy. …

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Climate Change, the International Intellectual Property Régime, and Disputes Under the TRIPS Agreement

Gervais, Daniel J. - 2015

This study considers intellectual property rules contained in the WTO TRIPS Agreement as they might affect climate change regulatory efforts. The TRIPS Agreement rules that are most directly applicable in this context are patents; confidential information, and enforcement of IP rights before...

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