Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- PART I Climate change mitigation: scientific, political and international and trade law perspectives
- PART II Climate change mitigation and trade in goods
- PART III Trade in renewable energy sources
- PART IV Climate change mitigation and trade in services
- PART V Climate change and technology transfer, investment and government procurement: legal issues
- PART VI Institutional challenges and the way forward
- 19 Institutional challenges to enhance policy co-ordination — how WTO rules could be utilised to meet climate objectives?
- 20 Environmental goods and services: the Environmental Area Initiative approach and climate change
- Index
- References
19 - Institutional challenges to enhance policy co-ordination — how WTO rules could be utilised to meet climate objectives?
from PART VI - Institutional challenges and the way forward
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- PART I Climate change mitigation: scientific, political and international and trade law perspectives
- PART II Climate change mitigation and trade in goods
- PART III Trade in renewable energy sources
- PART IV Climate change mitigation and trade in services
- PART V Climate change and technology transfer, investment and government procurement: legal issues
- PART VI Institutional challenges and the way forward
- 19 Institutional challenges to enhance policy co-ordination — how WTO rules could be utilised to meet climate objectives?
- 20 Environmental goods and services: the Environmental Area Initiative approach and climate change
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The debate on the relationship between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol on the one hand and the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the other hand raises both old and new issues. The old issues are those which have been discussed in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO trade and environment debate for the past fifteen years, in particular the relationship between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and the world trading system and the treatment of process and production methods, among others. The main new elements are the sense of urgency which characterises the climate change debate, as well as the range of different policy measures which may be needed to reach carbon emissions targets; these measures may concern several WTO agreements, including the GATT, the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Moreover, the solutions chosen to curb emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) may vary from country to country, or groups of countries may get together to implement common regional solutions, thus adding to the diversity of possible scenarios.
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- International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate ChangeWorld Trade Forum, pp. 371 - 394Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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