Environment and Climate Change
Trade and investment treaties can be instruments to advance the global climate and development agenda, but the prevailing model of trade and investment treaties is largely incompatible with the world’s broader climate goals. The model rules for trade and investment treaties need to be redesigned with an overriding principle to reward climate-friendly modes of economic activity, curb activity that worsens climate change, and provide the proper policy space so that nation-states can adequately address the climate challenge. GEGI’s work in this area conducts economic analysis on the impacts of trade and investment rules on climate change and other environmental issues, examines the extent to which current and proposed trade treaties grant the proper policy space to advance a deep de-carbonization agenda, and articulates proposals that will make the trade and investment regime more compatible with broader climate change goals.
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