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The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements

Author: Geraldo Vidigal; Kathleen Claussen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198886884
Published In: August 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Once seen as aspirational and relatively innocuous, 'sustainability' or 'sustainable development' provisions are now changing the face of international trade agreements. The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements gathers fundamental, first-hand analyses of these novel commitments across dozens of agreements, considering their legal, political, and economic aspects.

Drawing on perspectives from different parts of the world and engaging experts in the law and practice of sustainability provisions, this volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the latest developments and innovations in international trade agreements. It also evaluates the development challenges that sustainability requirements pose for countries with limited resources and capacity, for whom lower labour and environmental regulatory costs have been a competitive asset.

The present volume explores the intersectional aspects of sustainability - such as gender equality, biodiversity, animal welfare, and Indigenous rights - in addition to the more traditional dimensions of sustainability, namely economic development, environmental conservation, and improvement of labour standards.

There is little doubt that a sustainability revolution in global production patterns is needed. Considering the details of its operation - how it can come into being, who will bear the increased production costs, and how decisions on difficult trade-offs will be made - reveals the immense challenges involved in developing a new international law for sustainable trade. Read together, the chapters in this volume outline the contours this emerging legal framework, examine its practical operation, and offer important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution in international trade agreements.

1:A Sustainability Revolution? The Role of Trade Agreements

Part I. Sustainability in International Trade Agreements: Conflict or Complementarity

2:Embedding Sustainable Development in Trade

3:Making Trade Agreements Contribute to Sustainability : The Potential of Behavioural Science

4:Evaluating the Sustainability Agenda in International Trade Agreements: Aims, Effectiveness, Legitimacy, and Importance

5:Sustainable Development and International Economic Law: Intersections or Convergence?

6:Trade and Environment Negotiations at the WTO: A New Opportunity for SIDS?

Part II. Sustainability Obligations: Content and Compliance

7:Labour Standards in EU Free Trade Agreements: Substantive Issues and Recent Developments Concerning Their Enforcement

8:Trade Agreements and Disability Inclusion: Looking Beyond Labour and Gender Equality Provisions

9:Infusing Indigenous Worldviews in Trade and Sustainability Agreements

10:The Legal Links between Free Trade Agreements and Multilateral Environmental Agreements

11:Exploring the Nexus of Environmental Sustainability and International Trade: The Significance of Self-Standing Obligations

12:Integrating Climate Action into Free Trade Agreements

13:Sustainability Obligations and Developing Countries: Any Scope for Special and Differential Treatment?

14:Enforcing Sustainability Obligations: Adjudication and Post-Adjudication Enforcement

15:Enforcing International Sustainability Standards on International and National Platforms

16:Decentralized Enforcement of Sustainability Commitments: Rebalancing, Targeted Enforcement, and Production Requirements in Trade Agreements

17:State and Private Accountability through the Rapid Response Labour Mechanism : Scope, Purposes, and Prospects for Effectiveness

18:Sustainability Obligations in Trade Agreements: Do Exceptions and Defences Apply?

Part III. Sustainability in Trade Agreements and the Future of the Global Economy

19:Copernican Revolution or Green Protectionism?

20:The Role of 'Development' in Sustainable Development in Trade Agreements

21:Interactions Between Free Trade Agreements' Sustainability Provisions and WTO Law

22:Sustainability Meets Trade: Assessing Trade Agreements' New Endeavour to Incorporate Sustainability Issues

23:From Neoliberalism to Ordoliberalism, and Beyond: Sustainability and Trade Governance

24:The Road Ahead

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