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Reconciling Trade and Climate: How the WTO Can Help Address Climate Change
Author(s): Tracey Epps (Author), Andrew Green (Author)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date: February 28, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849800065
- ISBN-13: 9781849800068
Book Description
This timely book addresses the interaction between policies addressing climate change and the rules of the WTO. The authors expertly examine the law and economics behind the application of trade rules in the area of climate, including the implications of WTO rules for domestic climate measures, the unilateral use of trade measures to attempt to force other countries to take climate action, and the role of trade measures in multilateral climate agreements. The book argues that while there is a possibility of conflict between international trade rules and progress on climate change, it need not be the case. Thus the major focus is on the ways in which trade measures can aid in addressing climate change.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Epps and Green have submitted an excellently written, innovative, and well-balanced study that deserves a wide relationship. Their conclusions are drawn based on a comprehensive and well-documented examination of existing WTO law and practice of the GATT panels and the Appellate Body. The authors do not limit themselves to a purely legal analysis, but also include the necessary considerations of political theory and economy. Above all, they deserve the credit for having rejected the traditional antagonism between trade and protection of the environment.’ — Alexander Proelss, European Yearbook of International Economic Law
‘Reconciling Trade and Climate
provides an interesting and timely contribution to the debate on the interaction between climate policy and the international trade regime.’ — Anatole Boute, International Energy Law Review ‘. . . the book contains an interesting analysis of the aspects of WTO law relevant to climate change [and] constitutes an important step in the right direction.’ — Kati Kulovesi, Climate Law‘Reconciling Trade and Climate
is a 280-page compendium of impeccable scholarship that begins with an informative introduction reflecting the necessity of reconciling international trade rules and climate policies. What follows is a series of superbly researched and presented issues involving linkages between trade and climate change, trade rules and domestic policies, unilateral action to compel countries to take climate change action, and multilateral solutions that will increase environmentally sound and beneficial trading. Enhanced with a comprehensive index, Reconciling Trade and Climate is a strongly recommended and seminal contribution to professional and academic libraries.’ — The Midwest Book ReviewAbout the Author
Tracey Epps, Tracey Epps Consulting, New Zealand and Andrew Green, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada
