Crafting trade and investment accords for sustainable development : Athena's treaties / Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordonier Segger, Marie-Claire, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

Environmental law, International.

Foreign trade regulation.

Investments--Law and legislation.

Investments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book explores how trade and investment agreements can be used to promote sustainable development, including examples of innovative measures which have been adopted by States in regional and bilateral agreements. It looks at how international trade and investment law can contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Contents:

SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction

2. International trade, investment and sustainability

3. Advancing trade and investment rules for the world's sustainable development goals (SDGs)

SECTION TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS

4. Trade and investment treaties and their impacts

5. Material impacts of trade and investment on sustainable development

6. Normative intersections of trade, investment and sustainability measures

SECTION THREE: INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS INTO TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS

7. International legal reasons for countries to address environmental and social impacts of trade and investment agreements

8. Integration as a principle of European law, and its relevance to the negotiation of trade and investment agreements

9. Policy and 'soft law' rationales for addressing social and environmental concerns in trade and investment treaties

10. International trade and investment agreements in light of the integration principle

SECTION FOUR: WTO PROVISIONS AND PROCESSES ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

11. Development and environment in early world trade debates

12. Sustainable development provisions in the 1994 GATT/WTO agreements

13. Sustainable development in the 2001 WTO Doha round debates

14. Sustainable development in the WTO institutions and trade policy review mechanism (TPRM)

15. The limits of addressing sustainable development in the WTO regime

SECTION FIVE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-RELATED INNOVATIONS IN BILATERAL AND REGIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT RULES

16. Bilateral and regional economic rules and regimes

17. Provisions to integrate environmental and social considerations in to a bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements for sustainable development

18. Procedural innovations related to sustainable development

SECTION SIX: TRADE AND INVESTMENT LAW CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

19. Trade and investment accords for sustainable development goals 1-5

20. Trade and investment accords for sustainable development goals 6-11

21. Trade and investment accords for sustainable development goals 12-17

SECTION SEVEN: A FUTURE TRADE AND INVESTMENT LAW FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

22. Integrating social and environmental considerations into trade and investment agreements, for sustainable development

23. A future agenda for crafting 'Athena's treaties' on trade and investment for sustainable development

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 21, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Cordonier Segger, Marie-Claire, 1973- Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development

ISBN:

0-19-256707-1

0-19-186909-0

0-19-256706-3

9780191869099

9780192567062

0192567063

OCLC:

1257031486