Climate Change and the Trading System: Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Natassia Ciuriak and Dan Ciuriak ()

The International Trade Journal, 2016, vol. 30, issue 4, 345-361

Abstract: We consider the climate action policy implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The shift of trade rule-making from the World Trade Organization to mega-regional trade negotiations, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, is not positive for effective climate action, which will have to be multilateral in scope, collective in nature, and policy-activist in design. The mega-regionals are plurilateral and exclusionary in scope, competitive in nature, and policy-restrictive in design. Their investment and competition regimes, given teeth by investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms, will militate against the evolution of a coherent and transparent body of climate-policy-friendly case law.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2016.1198282

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