Provides an overview of climate agreements and instruments, including a discussion of game theory implications, multilateral and bilateral agreements, regional cooperation, and more.
Contains a chapter on the environment that holds that a lack of full scientific evidence should not be a reason for not protecting the environment.
Incorporates provisions on environmental protection and sustainable development, including provisions addressing climate change mitigation.
Supports the development of third-party certified ecolabelling systems, such as ISO 14024, while also supporting other types of self-declaration and voluntary programs.
Provides international ecolabeling standards that are generally favored in WTO jurisprudence
Details an internationally accepted methodology that will help countries make their fossil fuel subsidies more transparent.
The WTO’s 2013 decision against Ontario invalidated a renewable energy feed-in tariff for having discriminatory local content rules. The decision contours certain attributes to avoid in designing local content rules.
Invalidated solar policies for having discriminatory local content rules. The decision contours certain attributes to avoid in designing local content rules.
Invalidated renewable energy policies in Washington, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, Montana, Massachusetts, Michigan and Delaware for having discriminatory local content rules.
Requires that 12.4% of road vehicle fuel come from biofuels by 2032.