Assessing the Climate Impacts of U.S. Trade Agreements

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Yet despite the growing evidence of the relevance of trade policy to climate change, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) largely ignores potential climate impacts when preparing environmental reviews of proposed trade agreements as required under Executive Order 13141. A journal article in the Michigan Journal on Environmental & Administrative Law from Kevin P. Gallagher and co-authors from the Working Group on Trade, Investment and Climate Policy explores how the USTR could address climate change within the environmental review process to both assess the potential economically driven and regulatory impacts of proposed trade agreements for climate change and identify options for mitigating those impacts.