This book examines how international trade can be utilised to build a sustainable future. It highlights how international trade and climate regimes can work together to put in place a Green New Deal. The potential of mega-regional trade agreements to aid climate change mitigation and power the...

Disputes involving trade and investment in services are a rarity in the WTO. Up to now, the WTO dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) has addressed over 130 cases, of which a handful concerned trade and investment in services. It is possible to identify three relevant reasons that may explain, at...

Biographical note : prof dr Peter LH van den Bossche -- Restoring trust in trade: introduction / Jens Hillebrand Pohl, Iveta Alexovičová and Denise Prévost -- Effecting global economic governance through the WTO : one step at a time / Mary E Footer -- Trade policies in support of inclusive...

This paper attempts to shed some light to the relationship between new mechanisms to mitigate climate change and promote renewable energy generation, and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Trade in Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) is a market-based scheme that promotes energy...