Matthew Porterfield – TTIP and Climate Change: Low Economic Benefits, Real Climate Risks

Yves here. Readers may take exception to the posture of this paper, that the TTIP could be improved so as to eliminate its environment-negaive features. It’s hard to see those as anything other than features, that the authors were fully aware of how the TTIP would serve to weaken environmental, including climate-change-related regulations. Nevertheless, this article serves as a very good list of how the TTIP conflicts with the objective of combatting global warming.

By Matthew C. Porterfield, Deputy Director and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Harrison Institute for Public Law and Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies. Originally published as an International Institute for Sustainable Development Commentary. Cross posted from Triple Crisis

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