The sustainability revolution in international trade agreements / edited by Geraldo Vidigal, Kathleen Claussen. - xvi, 409 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Geraldo Vidigal and Kathleen Claussen -- Joel P. Trachtman -- Anne van Aaken -- James Harrison -- Sonia E. Rolland -- Jan Yves Remy and Sanvid Tuljapurkar -- Giovanni Gruni -- Amrita Bahri -- Risa Schwartz amd Carrie Stoddart-Smith -- Gregory Messenger -- Maria Panezi -- Emily Lydgate -- Regis Y. Simo -- Ilaria Espa -- Desirée LeClercq -- Geraldo Vidigal -- Kevin Banks -- Caroline Henckels -- Timothy Meyer -- James J. Nedumpara -- Yuka Fukunaga -- Jaemin Lee -- Frank J. Garcia and Mario R. Osorio Hernandez -- Kathleen Claussen and Geraldo Vidigal.

9780198886884

10.1093/9780191994470.001.0001 doi


Foreign trade regulation--Environmental aspects
Sustainable development

K3943 / .S87 2024