The meeting to draw up a climate change regime for 2020 and beyond in Paris later this year will, as usual, be fraught with overwhelming complexity. Will "climate clubs" be able to offer room for making greater efforts in smaller groups?

The demand for renewable energy, particularly wind and solar power, has seen a meteoric rise in the last decade.This increase in demand, however, has resulted in fairly frequent trade disputes between nations seeking to expand or preserve their country’s green industries. The European Union (“EU”) accused the Chinese solar panel industry of dumping, or selling its products at prices below what they would charge domestically.

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The much hyped ‘stand off’ between US and India on India’s current IPR regime and concerns expressed that India is not fully compliant with TRIPS Agreement is more a myth than a reality. The differences are relatively minor and even though India is in the Priority Watch List of USTR, it is more of an internal alert system within US with no relevance to India or her position in the global trading community or the WTO. In fact, U.S.