The paper Triggering the Trade Transition: The G20’s Role in Reconciling Rules for Trade and Climate Change explores options for the G20 to trigger a transition of the trade system towards a regime that is part of the solution to tackle climate change. The analysis builds on a background paper, two think pieces and a series of dialogues with climate and trade delegates, as well as experts throughout 2017.
As a powerful forum for discussion and policy coordination that brings together the world’s major economies and emitters, the G20 has the potential to spur global rule-making to prevent a collision between the trade and climate regimes and move both towards more affirmative actions by reimagining trade rules to support the fight against climate change.
The paper Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in the WTO: Options for Constraining Dual Pricing in the Multilateral Trading System discusses the practice of energy dual pricing in the broader context of fossil fuel subsidy reform.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015, includes Sustainable Development Goals with respect to climate change (SDG 13) and to ensuring access to sustainable energy (SDG 7).