The fast deployment of renewable energy is crucial in the fight against climate change. While there are significant advances from the technological, commercial and even public opinion perspective, renewable energy still faces significant obstacles and barriers which justify a significant public...

While Local Content Requirements, commonly paired with Feed-in Tariffs to spur renewable energy investment, violate WTO rules, the peculiar features of the WTO dispute resolution system ensure, surprisingly, that they will be used as effectively as possible

This contribution discusses WTO subsidies disciplines in the context of the energy sector. After laying out the relevant disciplines, it will discuss the paradox of WTO law with respect to subsidies towards fossil fuels vis-à-vis those towards renewable energy. It is clear that subsidies on...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policies to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. These policies can generate trade frictions. For example, in the Canadian renewable...