Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2018 Introduction * Read the full Handbook here This Negotiators’ Handbook aims at supporting government representatives during the process of negotiating new generation IIAs. It is structured on a provision-by-provision basis, by reference to the standard provisions usually contained in investment agreements. The commentary of each provision includes a chart containing the most relevant information: recent trends in treaty making, recommended

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

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Spring 2014 Executive Summary Read the full report here 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