Trade, Investment & Climate Change

This course introduces students to the legal concepts and tensions underlying international trade in goods and services as well as investment regarding climate change. It looks at the discussions at the multilateral level (especially WTO and UNCTAD) as well as some regional and domestic responses to the current challenges (eg. EU). The course relies on official documents and thereby familiarises the participants with the language and arguments used in these documents and prepares them for drafting and understanding such documents in the future. It emphasises the importance of the different priorities for different actors and the options for bridging current gaps.