| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 437 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cambridge books online
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
How can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the greenhouse gas emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
World Trade Organization gnd |
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Foreign trade regulation -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses
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International trade -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses
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LAW -- Commercial -- International Trade.
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Droit commercial international.
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Organisation mondiale du commerce.
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Changement climatique.
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Protection de l'environnement.
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Congrès.
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Foreign trade regulation -- Environmental aspects
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International trade -- Environmental aspects
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Klimaschutz
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Handelspolitik
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cottier, Thomas.
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Nartova, Olga.
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Bigdeli, Sadeq Z.
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World Trade Forum (11th : 2007 : Berne, Switzerland)
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| LC no. |
2009011369 |
| ISBN |
9780511757327 |
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0511757328 |
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9780511757396 |
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0511757395 |
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1107208866 |
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9781107208865 |
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9781282630956 |
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9780511757181 |
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