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Towards an Environmental Goods Agreement Style (EGAST) agenda to improve the regime complex for climate change

In: Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change

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  • Jaime de Melo
  • Jean-Marc Solleder

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Ever since the creation of the WTO, attempts at bringing together the trade and climate regime have failed. This paper argues that a successful EGA-STyle (EGAST) agenda should go beyond the elimination of 'nuisance tariffs' to include high energy-efficiency EGs and high-tariff products. The EG list should also include Environmentally Preferable Products. As to the difficult-to-detect Non-tariff Barriers (e.g., non-tariff measures), among which some are protectionist in intent, they should be included in the agenda up for mutual recognition. The paper concludes that negotiations to reduce barriers to trade in EGs would be a promising avenue for rapprochement between the trade and climate regimes.

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  • Jaime de Melo & Jean-Marc Solleder, 2022. "Towards an Environmental Goods Agreement Style (EGAST) agenda to improve the regime complex for climate change," Chapters, in: Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change, chapter 13, pages 202-219, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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