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Protecting the Amazon

Protecting the Amazon

A Report on Mechanisms of Redress for Potential Human Rights and Environmental Breaches in Brazil Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2019 Beneficiary: Society for Threatened Peoples Executive Summary (Full report can be read here)** This report appraises a variety of global mechanisms of redress – with the aim of identifying promising options – for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment in the Brazilian Amazon. The key products of the report are

Los Andes Clinic's Santiago Wills Appointed New Chair of WTO Negotiating Group

Los Andes Clinic's Santiago Wills Appointed New Chair of WTO Negotiating Group

Santiago Wills, a leader of the Universidad de los Andes TradeLab pilot clinic and now serving as the Ambassador of Colombia, was recently appointed chair of the WTO Negotiating Group on Rules. As chair, he will lead discussions regarding fisheries subsidies, furthering UN Sustainable Development Goals and ocean protection. To read more, click here. #LosAndes #WTO #SustainableDevelopment #Colombia #PilotClinic #Negotiation #Environment

Analysis of AfCFTA's Protocol on Trade in Services and Strategy for Country A

Analysis of AfCFTA's Protocol on Trade in Services and Strategy for Country A

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2018 Executive Summary* ** * Executive Summary in French below ** Confidential Report The agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was signed in March 2018 by 44 members of the African Union. If ratified, this agreement will create the world's largest free trade area. As the first phase of the AfCFTA negotiations ends, the State Parties to the AfCFTA wish to develop a strategy to promote their interest in the tra

The Paris Accord-Related Agreement on Environmental Goods and Services

The Paris Accord-Related Agreement on Environmental Goods and Services

It's Necessity and Feasibility Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2018 Beneficiary: Permanent Mission of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu to the World Trade Organization Executive Summary Read the full report here The catastrophic effects of climate change require stronger measures than the existing ones. Despite the success of the Paris Agreement in terms of participation, it is still necessary to undertake stronger and more effective steps to mitigate this phenomenon and furt

Perverse Subsidies and Extractive Industries

Perverse Subsidies and Extractive Industries

(Image Source: National Geographic) Internalizing Environmental Costs and Promoting Sustainable Development in Suriname and Guyana Clinic: uOttawa-Queen's Joint Clinic, Spring 2017 Beneficiary: Conservation International Executive Summary Read and download the full report here. Suriname and Guyana host some of the most pristine rainforests in the world and are rich in biodiversity. Both countries are covered to over 75 percent in rainforest, which is home to thousands of diff

Fisheries Subsidies: Buenos Aires and Beyond - A Handbook

Fisheries Subsidies: Buenos Aires and Beyond - A Handbook

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2017 Executive Summary The full Handbook can be accessed here. The Buenos Aires Ministerial Decision of 13 December 2017 on Fisheries Subsidies (the BA Ministerial Decision) marks more than 20 years since the issue of subsidies to fisheries was raised at the World Trade Organization (WTO), originally under the auspices of Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE), and later the Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR), and more than 25 years since the

UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade

UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade

This study seeks to improve our understanding of the relationship between response measures, economic diversification and international trade rules, and accordingly identify the positive opportunities that the current proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements brings for diversification and climate change mitigation. In doing so, the study explores the following questions: (i) what are the trade-related response measures included in the INDCs/NDCs and how are th

Addressing the rise of Trade Remedies against Environmental Goods

Addressing the rise of Trade Remedies against Environmental Goods

Executive Summary This research paper analyses the current problem of frequent resort to trade remedies for environmental goods and makes recommendations to resolve this problem. Specifically it tries to examine the issue, whether the imposition of trade remedies (that is levying of anti-dumping and countervailing duties) on environmental goods undermines the efforts at trade liberalisation, by tariff reduction for environmental goods. This paper divided into 4 parts, part I

Obligations Undertaken by States under International Conventions for the Protection of Cultural Righ

Obligations Undertaken by States under International Conventions for the Protection of Cultural Righ

This memorandum investigates to what extent obligations undertaken by States under International Conventions for the Protection of Cultural Rights and the Environment constitute a limitation to investor’s rights under bilateral or multilateral investment treaties and investment contracts. Executive Summary This memorandum was prepared by students of the Trade and Investment Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies as a response to a reques

Treatment and Monitoring of the EU and USA Emission Trading Systems Under the Agreement on Subsidies

Treatment and Monitoring of the EU and USA Emission Trading Systems Under the Agreement on Subsidies

This memorandum analyzes climate change legislation of the EU and the US and found that they contain provisions that may constitute subsidies and be challenged as the WTO under the SCM Agreement, specifically provisions regarding emission allowances and rebate programs. Regarding reforms to the WTO framework, it is suggested that WTO Members may create environmentally friendly provisions under the SCM Agreement rather than a new multilateral and plurilateral environmental and

WTO Rules, Export Quotas and Sustainable Development: the Case of China Rare Earths

WTO Rules, Export Quotas and Sustainable Development: the Case of China Rare Earths

Memorandum submitted by Han-wei Liu, Pacyinz Lyfoung, John Maughan. Executive Summary This Memorandum was prepared on a pro bono basis by students of the Trade & Investment Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It responds to a request by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) to investigate China’s rare earths export quota regime, as it stands in 2012, and to examine whether the

Issues and tensions in public procurement of 'green innovation': A cross-country study

Issues and tensions in public procurement of 'green innovation': A cross-country study

Executive Summary Public procurement for green innovation refers to tailoring public procurement policies in such a way as to promote green innovation within the wider economy. This study considers the nature of these policies, their legal limits, best practices, and how they have been implemented across a sample of four different OECD countries. The study begins with a general consideration of public procurement for green innovation and its component parts (i.e. green public

International Harmonization of Carbon Pricing: A Proposal for the United States

International Harmonization of Carbon Pricing: A Proposal for the United States

Executive Summary To date, the Unites States (U.S.) has not committed to a binding federal or international carbon dioxide (“CO2”) reduction agreement – an agreement that would signal a willingness and ability to meet CO2 emission reduction targets. Indeed, if the United States were to adopt carbon pricing legislation, several key questions must first be addressed. This includes the question of how best the U.S. could harmonize or link with other systems when: (1) it is conce

National Incentive Measures to Protect Biodiversity and Compliance with WTO Agreements

National Incentive Measures to Protect Biodiversity and Compliance with WTO Agreements

Executive Summary 1. This memorandum offers a case study identifying two concrete cases in which Brazil and Switzerland have designed and implemented positive incentive measures to promote the trade of biodiversity related products and services in line with the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). 2. This memorandum will analyze the tax incentive measure enacted by the State of the Amazonas in Brazil, and the Swiss taxation Regulation on the sustainabil

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