Legal options for a sustainable energy trade agreement
This paper looks at the legal options for a group of interested countries to enter into a new international agreement dedicated to the interface between trade policy and climate change, which could be titled the Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA). Sustainable energy, for the purposes of this paper, includes solar, wind, small-scale hydro and biomass related fuels, technologies and services and any other energy source that has the potential to mitigate greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The primary objective of SETA would be to promote the scale-up and deployment of sustainable energy sources through the use of trade policy measures in order to reduce the emissions responsible for global warming.