Searching for trade policy changes to stop climate warming

Prof. Raymond Saner at the TRI-CC conference: Searching for Progress in Key Areas. He highlighted the “regime failure” in the context of global trade and climate change challenges and called for urgent actions. He went on to proposes a new set of green WTO agreements that would encompass TRIMS, TRIPS and a trilateral plurilateral on energy, environment and trade & development.

Details of this frame breaking policy proposal can be heard at here

IISD’s Trade, Investment and Climate Change Project (TRI–CC) convened a one-day conference in Geneva on October 13, 2011 at World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters. In three sessions, a roster of internationally respected speakers addressed.

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