Energy subsidies and WTO dispute settlement : why only renewable energy subsidies are challenged

Henok Birhanu Asmelash

Over the past few years, renewable energy subsidies have become one of the main sources of trade disputes in the WTO. A total of six cases have been initiated against renewable energy subsidy programs since the first of such disputes was brought by Japan against Canada’s Feed in Tariff (FIT) program in 2010. Yet not even a single case has so far been initiated against the much larger and environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidies. The main objective of this paper is to examine what makes renewable energy subsidies vulnerable to WTO dispute, as compared to fossil fuel subsidies.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Asmelash, Henok Birhanu
Publisher:	St. Gallen : Univ. of St. Gallen Law School
Subject:	WTO \| SCM Agreement \| Subsidies \| fossil fuel subsidies \| renewable energy subsidies \| dispute settlement system \| Internationale Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit \| International commercial arbitration \| WTO-Recht \| WTO law \| Subvention \| Subsidy \| Energiepolitik \| Energy policy \| Welt \| World \| Förderung erneuerbarer Energien \| Renewable energy policy \| Fossile Energie \| Fossil fuel

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 27 S.)
Series:	Law and economics research paper series. - Sankt Gallen, ZDB-ID 2532394-5. Working paper / University of St. Gallen Law School ; 2014,05
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: PDF-Reader
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2499139 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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