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Environment in Preferential Trade Agreements
Clara Brandi is economist and political scientist at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). She is co-leader of the Klimalog project. Her main working areas are international trade and global governance, including preferential trade agreements, regional integration, international trade policy and climate policy, Green Economy as well as sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda.
In 2015, the adoption of the Paris Agreement was hailed as a historic step for international climate policy, enshrining a global commitment to reduce carbon emissions and limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2°C. The agreement is built on a flexible bottom-up approach, meaning that countries are free to determine their […]
