Crafting Trade And Investment Accords For Sustainable Development

Author : Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192567079

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Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger Pdf

International economic law guides and shapes globalization and the future of the world economy, our human societies, and the Earth. The rules which facilitate trade and investment could defend the interests of Hermes, Greek god of commerce and thieves, or learn to draw inspiration from Athena, goddess of justice, wisdom, and crafts. This volume explores how trade and investment agreements could promote more sustainable development, rather than increasing the negative social and environmental impacts of economic growth. States and other actors are attempting to integrate social and environmental considerations into trade and investment policies, towards more sustainable development. Analysing their efforts, this volume offers insights into the ways that commitments to sustainability are being operationalized in the texts of economic treaties themselves. Written by a renowned expert jurist and professor of law, this book examines the measures being debated in the WTO and adopted by States in a selection of innovative and flexible regional and bilateral trade and investment accords. With legal examples spanning decades of experimentation and experience, the book illuminates how States and stakeholders are seeking innovative ways to integrate environmental and social considerations into trade and investment agreements. Introducing a ground-breaking systematic approach, the volume considers how, through this integration, international trade and investment law can contribute to the achievement of the world's Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Cosimo Beverelli,Jürgen Kurtz,Damian Raess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108840880

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International Trade, Investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals by Cosimo Beverelli,Jürgen Kurtz,Damian Raess Pdf

A multi-disciplinary investigation of how economic globalization can help achieve the UN's 2030 Agenda, exploring trade-offs among the Goals.

Author : Clair Gammage,Tonia Novitz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788971041

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Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance by Clair Gammage,Tonia Novitz Pdf

Sustainable development remains a high priority in international politics, as governments seek new methods of managing the consumption of resources while maintaining national economic growth. This timely book explores how the contours and facets of sustainability shape international laws and regulations that govern trade, investment and finance.'

Author : Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger,David Andrew Wardell,Alexandra Harrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108349611

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CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger,David Andrew Wardell,Alexandra Harrington Pdf

Saving endangered species presents a critical and increasingly pressing challenge for conservation and sustainability movements, and is also matter of survival and livelihoods for the world's poorest and vulnerable communities. In 1973, a global Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was adopted to stem the extinction of many species. In 2015, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 15) the United Nations called for urgent action to protect endangered species and their natural habitats. This volume focuses on the legal implementation of CITES to achieve the global SDGs. Activating interdisciplinary analysis and case studies across jurisdictions, the contributors analyse the potential for CITES to promote more sustainable development, proposing international and national regulatory innovations for implementing CITES. They consider recent innovations and key intervention points along flora and fauna value chains, advancing coherent recommendations to strengthen CITES implementation, including through the regulation of trade in endangered species globally and locally.

Author : Birgit Peters,Eva Julia Lohse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004509382

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Sustainability through Participation? by Birgit Peters,Eva Julia Lohse Pdf

Can—and should—participation be a means of achieving sustainability? The concepts of sustainability and participation are both in vogue, and many international, supranational and national legal texts and standards refer to these two concepts. However, there are still several unanswered questions that invite legal inquiry: which sustainability? Which kinds of participation? Participation by whom? How are the two concepts of sustainability and participation effectively interlinked in legal provisions? This book approaches the interconnection between sustainability and participation inductively and precisely in areas of law which are commonly associated with sustainability and sustainable development: national, European and international environmental and economic law.

Author : Ilias Bantekas,Francesco Seatzu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1489 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192885173

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The Un Sustainable Development Goals by Ilias Bantekas,Francesco Seatzu Pdf

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This historic document constituted a transformative 'plan for action for people, planet and prosperity' with regards to the sustainable development efforts of all countries. The Sustainable Development Goals serves as an expert compendium, the most authoritative ready-reference tool for anyone interested in the SDGs. Each chapter comprises a detailed target-by-target analysis of one of the SDGs, including a methodical analysis of the preparatory proceedings that shaped each goal in its present form, an exhaustive examination of their content, and a critical assessment from an international law perspective. This commentary provides readers with the most up-to-date information on normative and legal questions arising from the incorporation of the SDGs into the international economic, social, and environmental legal frameworks, and on their implementation status. Scholars, practitioners, and those interested in the fields of law, politics, development, economics, environmental studies, and global governance will find this book a must-read.

Author : International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9781895536218

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Environment and Trade by International Institute for Sustainable Development Pdf

Reference tool to facilitate broader understanding and awareness of relationship between environment and trade which can then become the basis on which fair and environmentally sustainable policies and trade flows are built.

Author : Robert G. Finbow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228012757

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CETA Implementation and Implications by Robert G. Finbow Pdf

The Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is hailed as the gold standard for trade agreements. It addresses tariffs on traded goods, favoured status for EU and Canadian exporters, trade in services, and technical barriers to trade, while also seeking coordination between government agencies to promote regulatory cooperation, harmonization, and mutual recognition of standards. As the world retreats towards populism and protectionism, CETA Implementation and Implications provides a vital examination of this contemporary economic collaboration between developed states, which serves as a model for other progressive regional trade agreements. This book offers the first in-depth, comprehensive assessment of CETA, covering many of its most important elements and exploring its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Based on the European Commission-funded Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Project on CETA Implementation and Implications, which linked scholars and stakeholders across Europe and North America to analyze and evaluate the implementation and impacts of the agreement, this book covers regulation, procurement, the environment, the innovative investment disputes system, labour mobility and labour relations, bilateral governance instruments, and the implications for EU trade policy of CETA’s contested ratification. Uniquely interdisciplinary and featuring contributors from around the world, CETA Implementation and Implications provides a nuanced and balanced assessment of this landmark trade agreement and its effects on regional and global trade in turbulent times.

Author : Paul Ekins,Tancrede Voituriez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136551116

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Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment by Paul Ekins,Tancrede Voituriez Pdf

Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding especially of the social and environmental impacts of trade liberalisation, and of making those impacts more consistent with sustainable development. This book takes a hard look at the experience of Trade SIAs to date, and the extent to which they have achieved their objectives and improved the outcomes of trade negotiations. It proposes several ways in which Trade SIAs could be made more effective, and illustrates these in respect of controversial sectors in which trade liberalisation has been implemented or proposed, including commodities, services and investment. Finally the book makes proposals beyond SIA through which some of the conflicts between trade liberalization and sustainable development could be more effectively addressed. Written by top researchers and experts on trade SIAs, this book is vital for researchers, academics, post-graduate students and policy makers working on any aspect of impact assessment, international trade or globalisation more generally. In addition, the book will provide a particularly useful background for those considering how the environment and trade interrelate at both global and regional levels, with some particular insights on climate change and trade policies.

Author : Halina Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134192731

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Trade Investment and the Environment by Halina Ward Pdf

A discussion on the future of trade, investment and the environment. It sets out the trade, investment and environment agenda in the run-up to the Millennium Round of trade negotiations. Topics covered include: building markets for sustainable trade; environmental regulation; finance and transnational corporations; environmental regulation and international investment; and conflict resolution in the World Trade Organization. The contributors include Renato Ruggiero (WTO Director General), Brian Wilson MP (UK Trade Minister), and John Gummer MP (former UK Secretary of State for the Environment).

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788110474

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Trade and Sustainable Development by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Author : Lyuba Zarsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136562747

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International Investment for Sustainable Development by Lyuba Zarsky Pdf

International Investment for Sustainable Development critically examines the interface between sustainability, development, and the governance of international investment. It challenges the conventional view that foreign direct investment is a 'miracle drug' for developing countries and exposes serious shortcomings in the current international investment regime. Composed of norms, agreements, treaties and regulations, the emerging investment regime expands the rights of transnational corporations (TNCs) without commensurate rewards for the common good. Drawing on both research and engaged advocacy, the contributors ultimately map out a new way forward, towards the creation and implementation of international investment rules that will promote global sustainability and equity.

Author : Satya Dev Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461562030

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Globalization, Growth and Sustainability by Satya Dev Gupta Pdf

Globalization, Growth and Sustainability focuses on the implications of both regional and global trade liberalization and complementary macroeconomics policy reforms on growth, equity, and sustainability. The volume is organized into three sections: Part One addresses the issue of economic growth with a special reference to less developed economies; Part Two examines the pros and cons of the regional economic integration movement for the countries either participating in, or outside of, the regional groups; Part Three focuses on the issues of equity and sustainability. Globalization, Growth and Sustainability will provide valuable insights and important background analysis for scholars working in the field of globalization, as well as senior undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of curricula, including economics, development studies, and international studies.

Author : Joost Oorthuizen,Hans Vermaak,Carla Romeu Dalmau,Elea Papaemmanuel
Publisher : IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789082951714

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Collaborative Transformation by Joost Oorthuizen,Hans Vermaak,Carla Romeu Dalmau,Elea Papaemmanuel Pdf

What does it take to make real change toward sustainability in international trade? IDH and its partners have spent the last 10 years learning the art of collaborative transformation, accumulating tacit knowledge on what works and what doesn’t to make change within the complexity of international trade. This book distills their insights, presenting 5 key dimensions that are critical for stakeholders to attend to while working toward sustainability. The relational dimension involves building and convening different stakeholders into strong and effective coalitions. Through the discursive dimension coalitions must forge a framework for a common future out of diverse interests and concerns. Collaborative transformation also involves an institutional dimension, as a variety of formal and informal structures lend critical support to the coalition’s efforts. And those involved must continually learn by critically inquiring into their ongoing work together: this is the reflective dimension. The fifth dimension concerns implementation: change only happens when tangible shifts are happening at many different levels – in the field, along the value chain, in business practices and in policy. To break down this complexity and to make it concrete, IDH gives examples from their partnerships involving a wide range of industries: from cotton to tea to cocoa. They show that collaborative transformations are not only possible: they hold the key to our shared future.

Author : Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842770993

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Trade and Environment by Shahrukh Rafi Khan Pdf

Macro-level analysis and micro case studies, inclusion of both North and South perspectives, combine to create a constructive and concrete policy agenda, making this book one that should be useful to scholars, policymakers and negotiators alike.