Saturday, August 28, 2021

Leal-Arcas: Climate Clubs for a Sustainable Future: The Role of International Trade and Investment Law

Rafael Leal-Arcas
(Queen Mary Univ. of London - Law) has published Climate Clubs for a Sustainable Future: The Role of International Trade and Investment Law (Wolters Kluwer 2021). Here's the abstract:
Climate Clubs for a Sustainable Future, a revolutionary book by one of the world’s foremost authorities on international economic law, delves deep into the role of international trade and investment law and explains how free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties can be used as a powerful tool to help alleviate climate change. The science, economics as well as the law of climate change are known to us. Nonetheless, what is not known to us is how countries may join hands to cooperate on climate change mitigation. In this vein, the role of international trade in climate change, although globally recognized, is not well understood.