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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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Global regulations involving clean energy technologies have evolved in recent decades. Such evolution came as a result of technological disparities between the North and the South. Such regulatory changes came because of the failure of developed nations to assist developing countries in...
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This paper will reflect on the burgeoning ‘trade and climate change’ scholarship in the context of previous linkage debates – particularly the trade and environment/human rights/development literature. It will focus on the extent to which unilateral measures adopted by States to fight...
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An appropriately conceived and well-designed border climate adjustment scheme, as a policy mechanism potentially utilizable by many States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, may lead to desirable consequences for the development of comprehensive global greenhouse...
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The emergence of China as a significant economic force in Latin America has sparked both optimism and alarm. With … titles such as 'The Coming China Wars' and 'The Dragon in the Backyard,' recent books and articles depict China as a rising … China’s pragmatic, unorthodox development strategies and portray China as a successful model for developing countries. The …
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The English version of this paper can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2016680 China’s growing economic engagement … with Latin America has sparked both popular and scholarly debate. Some scholars contend that China is a rising imperial … agreements that would curb its profligate consumption of the world’s natural resources. Others applaud China’s unorthodox …
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The working paper concerns the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) and its climate provision. It …
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discussions about binding emission limits. China is one of the key players in that context. However, beyond the imperative of … effectively implemented. In fact, with respect to China, it is not all clear that existing governance structures are presently … mitigating China's greenhouse gas emissions. After reviewing China's significance to the problem, the essay examines the National …
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part of the forthcoming green tax reform in China. On 10 June 2015, the Cabinet’s Legislative Affairs Office issued a Draft … Environmental Protection Tax Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Draft EPT Law’) to solicit …
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