Trade, climate change and renewable energy: regulatory conflict or convergence?
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2018
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Thomaides, Anastasia Chrisa
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Abstract
The research report seeks to explore the link between trade and the environment, with
a particular focus on the renewable energy sector. The aim is to determine the tensions
and unification amongst the regulatory tools of the World Trade Organisation and
Climate Change Regimes will be discussed, in a manner that shows how trade can
assist in mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change. As such the intention
of the report is to answer the question of how do we use trade to disseminate energy
technology as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) in order to
ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, in both
an international and South African context. The result, however, lead the need for
more inclusive global regime that is less fragmented, over and above the need for
improvement for domestic laws as well as infrastructure to generate electricity in order
to provide for much more enabling approach to the investment of renewable energy.
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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Masters of Laws by Coursework and Research Report at the
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2018
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Thomaides, Anastasia Chrisa (2018) Trade, climate change and renewable energy:|bregulatory conflict or convergence? ,University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/26717>