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How To Think About Ppms (And Climate Change), Donald H. Regan
How To Think About Ppms (And Climate Change), Donald H. Regan
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The European Commission has apparently backed off from a proposal to tax imported goods produced by methods that generate excessive greenhouse gas emissions. So the issue of whether such a tax would be legal under the WTO has become slightly less urgent than it recently appeared. But Pascal Lamy the Director-General of the WTO still thought the possibility of some countries imposing emission-based trade restrictions was worth mentioning prominently in his speech to the Trade Ministers Conference in conjunction with the Bali Conference on climate change after Kyoto. And at that same conference, an official of the European Commission may …
International Responsibility And The Admission Of States To The United Nations, Thomas D. Grant
International Responsibility And The Admission Of States To The United Nations, Thomas D. Grant
Michigan Journal of International Law
The present Article considers what identifiable substantive obligations might be relevant to admission; whether admission as practiced has resulted in a breach of obligation; and whether any such breach might impose international responsibility on the international actors involved in the decision to admit new States. The Article further considers what future reparative obligations such responsibility might entail.