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Reconceptualising transnational governance : making global institutions fit for purpose

Cleary, Sean - 2017

Tensions between national democratic accountability and transnational challenges undermine trust and collective action. Asymmetry between an integrated global economy, fragmented global community, and defective global polity, causes social turbulence. Facing technological disruption, we need a...

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Key policy actions for sustainable land and water use to serve people

Braun, Joachim von; Gulati, Ashok; Kharas, Homi Jamshed - 2017

To achieve food security for all, new resource policies for sustainable land and water use are needed. Land, water and energy need to be considered jointly in policies, not in isolation. G20 countries' policy makers, corporate and civil society actors, and those of other countries should act in...

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Reconceptualising transnational governance : making global institutions fit for purpose

Cleary, Sean - 2017

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Climate policies and nationally determined contributions : reconciling the needed ambition with the political economy

Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2017

Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5 to 2°C increase. Either target requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the literature on how policymakers can design climate...

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Key policy actions for sustainable land and water use to serve people

Braun, Joachim von; Gulati, Ashok; Kharas, Homi Jamshed - 2017

To achieve food security for all, new resource policies for sustainable land and water use are needed. Land, water and energy need to be considered jointly in policies, not in isolation. United Nations, G20 countries’ policy makers, corporate and civil society actors, and those of other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741866

Canada : renewable energy ; implications for WTO law on green and not-so-green subsidies

Charnovitz, Steve; Fischer, Carolyn - 2014

In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario's feed-in tariff was challenged as a discriminatory investment-related measure and as a prohibited import substitution subsidy. The panel and Appellate Body agreed that Canada...

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Introduction to ‘Sustainable Development in World Investment Law’

Newcombe, Andrew - 2014

in Sustainable Development in World Trade Law. The volume's goal is to analyse the state of international investment law …

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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014

resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …

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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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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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