Climate and Trade: Potential Conflicts and Synergies

Steve Charnovitz

Chapter 13 in The Path of World Trade Law in the 21st Century, 2014, pp 565-612 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: International trade and global climate change are closely linked. To date, multilateral efforts to liberalize trade and to prevent global warming have proceeded largely on separate paths. Increasingly, however, these parallel regimes — one defined by the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its annexes, the other by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol (not yet in force) — are likely to come into closer contact as climate policies lead to significant economic effects. Already, a significant potential for conflict exists between the regimes and the interests they represent (Brewer 2003). Yet there are also a number of important synergies that can be better developed…

Keywords: International Law; Environment; Global Law; World Trade; International Organization; Labor Law; Sustainable Development; Labor Relations; WTO; International Migration; Discrimination; International Governance; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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