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Stimulating Climate Smart Agriculture within the Boundaries of International Trade Law

Jonathan Verschuuren

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2016/4/4



The Paris Agreement implies that comprehensive policies aimed at climate smart agriculture, ie, reducing emissions from agriculture, increasing sequestration through agriculture and land use, and increasing resilience of the agricultural sector need to be developed and implemented soon. This article reviews the boundaries international trade law imposes on the most common domestic and regional instruments aimed at stimulating climate smart agriculture: subsidies and offset schemes under a carbon pricing mechanism. It finds that the Agreement on Agriculture and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures set limitations to the use of these instruments and calls for creating more room for manoeuvre for domestic policymakers.

Prof Jonathan Verschuuren, professor of International and European Environmental Law, Tilburg University, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, University of Sydney. For correspondence: <mailto:j.m.verschuuren@tilburguniversity.edu>. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 655565. DOI: 10.21552/cclr/2016/4/4

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