Climate, trade and water: A “grand coalition”?

Messerlin Patrick
Additional contact information
Messerlin Patrick: Sciences Po Paris

No P23, Working Papers from FERDI

Abstract: The paper argues first that the climate, trade and water communities should leave aside their prejudices, and it provides clear evidence that the three communities confront the same vested interests when trying to solve their common problem of free riding. Then, it argues that such strong similarities speak in favour of “sister” world regimes in these three domains. These sister regimes should first share the key principles of non-discrimination (national treatment and most favored nation) embodied in the WTO. Second, by contrast, the climate and water communities should review the other WTO rules in order to adapt them to their specific demands when needed. Interestingly, when doing so, these two communities may provide much needed inspiration for improving some rules of the current trade regime. Finally, the climate and water regimes may also adopt provisions on pricing that are not needed by the trade regime which deals mostly with well functioning markets.

JEL-codes: F13 F18 F5 Q4 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ferdi.fr/sites/www.ferdi.fr/files/publi ... 23_Messerlin_WEB.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.ferdi.fr/sites/www.ferdi.fr/files/publication/fichiers/P23_Messerlin_WEB.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://ferdi.fr/sites/www.ferdi.fr/files/publication/fichiers/P23_Messerlin_WEB.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://ferdi.fr/rails/active_storage/blobs/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBakVGIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ec27b5e97051fcc3cfce2d2e34950e9ae9b4f1e4/P23_Messerlin_WEB.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fdi:wpaper:610

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from FERDI Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Vincent Mazenod ().