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Future Multilateral Agreements

MCLI Recommendation: “The U.S. Department of State should play a leadership role in working multilaterally to develop new agreements on environmental goods and services as well as on strategies that facilitate the development of cleaner markets.”

LPDD Recommendation: “The U.S. Department of State should play a lead role in addressing border tax adjustments and other decarbonization strategies within the negotiation phase of preferential trade agreements, particularly regional and plurilateral agreements.”

LPDD Recommendation: “As part of the negotiations for a multilateral agreement on environmental goods and services, the U.S. Department of State should take a lead role in advocating clarifications to trade rules to more clearly allow feed-in tariff programs.”

LPDD Recommendation: “The U.S. Department of State should take a lead role in negotiating multilateral agreements concerning climate change that include decarbonization labeling standards.”

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Report, A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change

The London School of Economics’ 2016 paper, A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change, assesses the strength of limited “climate clubs” among progressive nations, arguing that they can enhance ...
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EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement incorporates provisions on environmental protection and sustainable development, including provisions addressing climate change mitigation.
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EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement contains a chapter on the environment that holds that a lack of full scientific evidence should not be a reason for not protecting the environm...
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IPCC’s AR-5 Chapter 13

The IPCC’s AR-5 Chapter 13 provides an overview of climate agreements and instruments, including a discussion of game theory implications, multilateral and bilateral agreements, regional cooperation, ...
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Report, Multilateral Climate Efforts Beyond the UNFCCC

C2ES’s 2011 paper, Multilateral Climate Efforts Beyond the UNFCCC, discusses venues for forwarding climate negotiations outside the Paris Agreement, including the International Maritime Organization, ...
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Clean Air Act §115

Clean Air Act §115 allows EPA to regulate any air pollutant on which there have been studies from an duly constituted international agency; for which US emissions endanger public health or welfare in ...