Sentences with phrase «global trade regime»

These are: Implement a «carbon tax» (or make polluters pay); impose really tough emission standards; create a secure global trade regime in low carbon fuels; develop ways of financing the transfer of the best available technology for creating and, more importantly, saving energy; and require governments to invest in research and early - stage innovation.

Here are some existing proposals for developing alternatives to the current global trade regime:

The TJN has long called for a more equitable, socially just and sustainable model for global trade; and so, in the context of NAFTA, the TJN is continuing to work to present alternatives to the current global trade regime.

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

This is why the United States has been at the center of the global trade and capital regime, and why, as I explain in my December 6 essay, if it withdraws, the alternative is not a new system centered on China but rather the disappearance of an orderly global trade regime.

The result is a global steel sector at unviable profit levels and an influx of cheap steel in the global trading system adversely affecting companies, workers, and the global trading regime.

If anything, such is the approach of the other side, some of whom prefer pigovian - style taxes to a global trading regime in emissions.

Not exact matches

But a tougher U.S. stance to trade still looms as a major threat to the global free - trade regime.

The new trade - related intellectual properties regime in industrialised nations is an unprecedented privatisation of knowledge, which has also encouraged the biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and resources on a global scale.

Continuing with a repressive and counter-productive tax regime could risk Britain losing its place as the historic hub of the global wine trade.

A global regulatory regime is emerging to harmonise standards and facilitate trade.

SA: Is something like the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes a global cap - and - trade regime, a good solution?

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

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Explicitly «not a trade fair», this global survey promises to be nothing if not eclectic: France will be showing designer Benjamin Loyauté's film made in a Syrian refugee camp, while Chile plans to reconstruct the Cybersyn Operations Room, a hi - tech tool for managing the economy developed by Salvador Allende's regime in the 1970s.

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

Predictably, the automakers, through the powerful Auto Alliance and Global Automakers trade groups, are calling for one national regime, which could result from a grand bargain like the one that Pruitt just scrapped, or could be delivered by Pruitt stripping California of its waiver.

Gore's suspect profiteering in the Silver Spring and Fisker deals are but the tip of the iceberg and pale in comparison to the tens of billions to be made by Gore and his partners at KPCB, Capricorn Investment Group LLC, Generation Investment Management, and Goldman Sachs in the sale of carbon credits in a global cap - and - trade regime.

I believe we need to harmonise the global climate change system with the trading regime through changes in the GATT rules.

, and 2) Even if participating a global cap - and - trade regime is so beneficial to China as many economic studies suggest, why has China consistently refused in international negotiations even to discuss its participation in it?.

Burden - sharing frameworks — several of which are reviewed in this report — can assist in determining the allocation of each country's share of emissions reductions, as well as the allocation of permits under a global cap - and - trade regime.»

The World Energy Perspective on Non-tariff Measures is the second report in a series looking at how an open global trade and investment regime concerning energy and environmental goods and services can foster the transition to a low - carbon economy.

We will conclude by exploring the interaction of international trade law and the global economic system as well as by assessing the main criticisms to this regime.

This suggests the price of Bitcoin gold could provide a solid foundation to international trade and economic growth if it becomes the new global regime of settlements — replacing the dollar and other fiat currencies.