This paper highlights the role of trade in contributing to massively scaling up and deploying renewable energy, a crucial step in supporting a shift away from fossil fuel so as to ensure energy security and to address climate change. It identifies a number of barriers to trade in sustainable energy goods and services (SEGS), while pointing to a significant governance gap in a number of key issue areas in the trade and sustainable energy interface. The authors argue that this can best be addressed by negotiating a trade agreement on sustainable energy. Such an agreement could initially take the form of a plurilateral agreement including a critical mass of major economies and emitters, either within or outside of the WTO.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/fostering-low-carbon-growth-case-sustainable-energy-trade-agreement
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/mahesh-sugathan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ricardo-melendez-ortiz
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-centre-trade-and-sustainable-development
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/low-carbon-economy
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-mitigation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/energy-policy
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trade
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/renewable-energy
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
