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Climate change and trade policy interaction : implications of regionalism

Asselt, Harro van - 2017

This report investigates the implications of regionalism for the interaction between trade and climate policy. It examines the implications of regional climate governance for international trade and conversely the implications of regional trade governance for climate change action. Regional...

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Multilateral environmental agreements in the WTO : silence speaks volumes

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2013

This study contributes to the debate concerning the appropriate role of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in in WTO dispute settlement. Its distinguishing feature is that it seeks to address this relationship in light of the reason why the parties have chosen to separate their...

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements in the WTO : Silence Speaks Volumes

Horn, Henrik - 2014

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Trade Obligations : A Theoretical Analysis of the Doha Proposal

Naghavi, Alireza - 2014

The Doha declaration on trade and environment proposed to clarify the relationship between multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) trade obligations and WTO rules by only guaranteeing economic integration upon ratification of certain MEAs. In other words, it pushed to authorize the use of...

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Environmental Goods and Services Negotiations at the WTO : Lessons from Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Ecolabels for Breaking the Impasse

Cosbey, Aaron; Aguilar, Soledad; Ashton, Melanie; … - 2014

This analysis looks for paths to progress in the WTO’s stalled negotiations on environmental goods and services – a set of talks that is frequently cited as trade policy’s natural contribution to climate change objectives. It surveys the experience of a number of multilateral environmental...

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Trade and Domestic Policy Linkage in International Agreements

Ederington, Josh - 2001

A central question in discussions of integrating negotiations over domestic policy (e.g., environmental policy or labor standards) into traditional trade agreements is the degree to which the trade policy and domestic policy provisions of an agreement should be explicitly linked. For example,...

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Kyoto is Dead, Long Live Kyoto! A New Era for International Climate Change Law

Stephens, Tim - 2014

As the implications of anthropogenic climate change are better understood the pressure builds for more effective legal and policy responses at national and international levels. With climate change looming as an existential threat, climate change law ought not to be characterised merely as a...

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World Trade Organization, Renewable Energy Subsidies and the Case of Feed-In Tariffs : Time for Reform Toward Sustainable Development?

Farah, Paolo Davide; Cima, Elena - 2016

Renewable energy subsidies are crucial for combatting climate change, and yet the world’s international legal … infrastructure is not designed to accommodate such subsidies. The world needs a renewable energy sector to develop and implement the … against each other: cultivation of renewable energy and prevention of unfair trade practices. The World Trade Organization …

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Trade in Environmental Goods : A Review of the WTO Appellate Body's Ruling in US — Countervailing Measures (China)

Brewster, Rachel - 2015

In this paper we claim that, in the WTO Appellate Body (AB)'s ruling in US-Countervailing Measures (China), the AB decision has essentially left unchanged the practice of imposing countervailing duties (CVDs) on environmental goods. While the US has formally “lost” the case, a change in the...

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Reconciling Flexible Emissions Trading with Voluntary Participation : A Post Kyoto Approach

Mitra, Siddhartha - 2007

This paper develops a model of emissions trading in which industrialized countries can exhibit a level of emissions which is more than their quota by buying emission permits from other industrialized countries (which use less than their quota) or "certified emission reductions" from developing...

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