de Cendra de Larragán, Javier --- "Emission trading schemes and WTO law: a typology of interactions" [2013] ELECD 646; in Van Calster, Geert; Prévost, Denise (eds), "Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 636

Book Title: Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO

Editor(s): Van Calster, Geert; Prévost, Denise

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847208972

Section: Chapter 18

Section Title: Emission trading schemes and WTO law: a typology of interactions

Author(s): de Cendra de Larragán, Javier

Number of pages: 35

Abstract/Description:

The relationship between Emission Trading Schemes (ETS) and WTO law has been intensively analyzed in the literature in recent years. For quite some time, analysis was either limited to rather theoretical studies or to examining the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Moreover, the literature has generally focused on the relationship by looking at one particular ETS and one particular WTO agreement. This is changing, due to the increasing number of ETS that are being proposed or adopted. Moreover, this trend has led to the realization that ETS can in practice look very different indeed from each other, and certainly from the ‘textbook’ ETS. This should not come as a surprise, given that domestic legislators have to try and accommodate many different and sometimes opposing interests and concerns when designing an ETS.