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International trade regulation and the mitigation of climate change : World Trade Forum /
How can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the greenhouse gas emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Climate Change Mitigation: Scientific, Political and International and Trade Law Perspectives: 1. Earth in the greenhouse: a challenge for the twenty-first century / Thomas Stocker; 2. A survey of Kyoto tools for greenhouse gas reductions: speculations on post-Kyoto scenarios / José Romero and Karine Stegwart; 3. International environmental law and the evolving concept of 'common concern of mankind' / Thomas Cottier and Sofya Matteotti-Berkutova; 4. Domestic and international strategies to address climate change: an overview of the WTO legal issues / Robert Howse and Antonia L. Eliason
- Part II. Climate Change Mitigation and Trade in Goods: 5. How to think about PPMs (and climate change) / Donald H. Regan; 6. Tilting at conventional WTO wisdom / Daniel C. Crosby; 7. Private climate change standards and labelling schemes under the WTO agreement on technical barriers / Arthur E. Appleton
- Part III. Trade in Renewable Energy Sources: 8. Incentive schemes to promote renewables and the WTO law of subsidies / Sadeq Z. Bigdeli; 9. The WTO and climate change 'incentives' / Gary N. Horlick; 10. Certifying biofuels: benefits for the environment, development and trade? / Simonetta Zarrilli and Jennifer Burnett
- Part IV. Climate Change Mitigation and Trade in Services: 11. GATS, financial services and trade in renewable energy certificates (RECs)-- just another market-based solution to cope with the tragedy of the commons? / Panagiotis Delimatsis and Despina Mavromati; 12. Assessment of GATS' impact on climate change mitigation / Olga Nartova; 13. GATS' commitments on environmental services: 'hover through the fog and filthy air?' / Rudolf Adlung
- Part V. Climate Change and Technology Transfer, Investment and Government Procurement: Legal Issues: 14. International transfer of technologies: recent developments in the climate change context / Felix Bloch; 15. TRIMS and the clean development mechanism-- potential conflicts / Stefan Rechsteiner, Christa Pfister and Fabian Martens; 16. Balancing investors' interests and global policy objectives in a carbon constrained world: the interface of international economic law with the clean development mechanism / Jacob D. Werksman; 17. Procurement policies, Kyoto compliance and the WTO agreement on government procurement: the case of the EU green electricity procurement and the PPMs debate / Garba I. Malumfashi; 18. Procurement and the World Trade Organization: purchase power or pester power? / Geert Van Calster
- Part VI. Institutional Challenges and the Way Forward: 19. Institutional challenges to enhance policy co-ordination: how WTO rules could be utilised to meet climate objectives? / Mireille Cossy and Gabrielle Marceau; 20. Environmental goods and services: the environmental area initiative approach and climate change / Thomas Cottier and Donah Baracol-Pinhão.