Environmental leverage in times of climate crisis : product standards, carbon border measures and preferential trade agreements / Giulia Claudia Leonelli

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonelli, Giulia Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Commercial treaties--Environmental aspects.

Commercial treaties.

Environmental law, International.

Genre:

Environment & Climate Change 2025.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart, 2026

Summary:

"This book offers a conceptually informed insight into the rise of ‘environmental leverage’ in times of climate crisis.The world is fast approaching a two degree Celsius increase in average global temperatures. Against this troubling background, trade-related environmental leverage aims to promote the uptake of more ambitious environmental standards by third countries and market actors involved in transnational supply chains.Trade-related environmental leverage can help to remedy the failures of environmental multilateralism, reshape the trade agenda to cater to the demands of our time, and entrench greener forms of development and more sustainable production and consumption patterns. Nonetheless, its boundaries must be appropriately circumscribed.The book assesses different forms of environmental leverage against the normative yardsticks of ‘environmental integrity’ and ‘environmental legitimacy’. Environmental integrity targets ‘green protectionism’ and ‘green discrimination’, drawing a line between the promotion of environmental values and the protection of economic interests. Environmental legitimacy captures ‘eco-imperialism’, addressing the question of the treatment of differently situated countries and developing and least developed countries in particular. The book employs an in-depth analysis of three case studies to operationalise this conceptual framework, articulating the limits to environmental leverage in legal terms. Combining a close focus on environmental regulations with a rigorous assessment of trade law questions, the book is relevant to anybody working in the fields of environmental law and policy, climate change law, and international trade law"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Introduction : trade-related environmental leverage and its limits

Anti-deforestation standards : testing the chapeau of Article XX GATT against integrity and legitimacy

Defensive carbon border measures : the notion of a level playing field and the rearticulation of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities

Consent-based leverage : integrity and legitimacy in preferential trade agreements

The future of environmental leverage

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed May 12, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Leonelli, Giulia Claudia Environmental leverage in times of climate crisis

ISBN:

1509978305

9781509978298

1509978291

9781509978304

9781509978311

1509978313

OCLC:

1569915495

Publisher Number:

CIPO000358684

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license