International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate Change: World Trade Forum

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What can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the GHG emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere? This collection of essays analyses options for climate-change mitigation through the lens of the trade lawyer. By examining international law, and in particular the relevant WTO agreements, the authors address the areas of potential conflict between international trade law and international law on climate mitigation and, where possible, suggest ways to strengthen mutual supportiveness between the two regimes. They do so taking into account the drivers of human-induced climate change in energy markets and of consumption.

Thomas Cottier is Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law. He is also Managing Director of the World Trade Institute. Olga Nartova is a qualified lawyer in Russia, a research fellow at the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Trade Regulation of the University of Bern, and alternate leader of a project on energy in WTO law and policy. Sadeq Z. Bigdeli is a graduate of the University of Tehran Faculty of Law and Political Science and a summa cum laude graduate of the MILE programme at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland.

'The volume covers a wide range of topics and assembles highly reputable contributors. It offers a good overview of the interface between climate change mitigation and world trade law, which will remain highly relevant for years to come ... constitutes an impressive collection of scholarship which will be a valuable reference point, both in the design phase of future unilateral and multilateral measures and when such measures reach the litigation stage.' Roland Ismer, European Yearbook of International Economic Law