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Moving to a model in which carbon emission levels and growth move in opposite directions – what we call a post-carbon economy – may start with
agreements
in Copenhagen to reduce carbon in the air.
Indeed, multilateral
agreements
are in place to minimize this risk, including at the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization.
In large part, this is because wealthy countries have sought to impose a one-size-fits-all model on the world, by influencing the rulemaking process at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and forcing their will via trade
agreements.
But if we act fast, harvesting fresh momentum on HFCs under sister
agreements
like Montreal and a growing array of cooperative coalitions, we can avoid disaster and ensure long-term economic development, including by supporting progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Terminating existing trade agreements, or disregarding the global trade rules that prevent the US from unilaterally raising tariffs, would invite a trade war, which would have immediate and harsh economic consequences.
For example, in the 1980s, the US entered into such
agreements
with foreign car, microchip, steel, lumber, and machine-tool manufacturers.
Nevertheless, despite these signs of progress, we are failing to confront the magnitude of the challenge, particularly in the translation of global
agreements
into legislation and action at the national and regional levels.
So G7 leaders recently pledged to prolong the sanctions until both the 2014 and 2015 Minsk
agreements
are fully respected.
India is showing keen interest in the region’s energy industry, and has signed export
agreements
in the defense sector.
But free-trade
agreements
presuppose the existence of established political borders, and Ukraine is not the only country that might come apart.
The same is true of Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from a growing number of international
agreements
and bodies, including the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, and, most recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council, after it criticized US policies towards the poor.
But that does not necessarily mean that depreciators are guilty of violating any
agreements
or norms, especially if they have merely maintained a pre-existing exchange-rate regime.
Bush is now clearly suggesting that Arafat is not a partner for peace, that the Oslo
agreements
are, in effect, dead, and thus that the Palestinian Authority as constituted by them does not exist anymore.
Moreover, he promises to renegotiate and perhaps even abrogate existing trade agreements, alluding to the possibility of a US withdrawal from the WTO.
True, Turkey has closed its ports to ships from (Greek) Cyprus, and this is a violation of
agreements.
For example, because not all countries are signatories to these agreements, vessels can choose which flag to fly to avoid being bound by regulations (a “flag of convenience”).
And the craven refusal to live up to the Budapest Memorandum is casting a shadow on the credibility of other international guarantees and agreements, including the mutual-defense assurance that lies at the heart of NATO membership.
Without such limited agreements, stasis in South Asia is the rule.
A raft of new bilateral trade
agreements
is also being negotiated.
The rush to bilateral
agreements
is perhaps understandable in the quest for rapid results and a greater sense of control over international trends.
But the costs are high, insofar as such
agreements
undercut the very multilateralism that in general serves the EU well.
Trade
agreements
are, by definition, pacts of reciprocal sovereign obligations regarding tariff and nontariff barriers.
Together, these official
agreements
comprise international law, which compensates for its lack of specific penalties by establishing strict and unambiguous concepts and one overarching sanction – universal blame for its transgression – that matters to everybody.
The process began quietly, with the establishment in 1874 of the Union Générale des Postes (which later became the Universal Postal Union), and went virtually unnoticed by those in fields that lacked any need for global
agreements.
The only way out for Greece is thus to combine both elements: rescheduling its debt plus national
agreements
on wages and social expenditure.
Apparently, those who complain about World Trade Organization rules or trade
agreements
are awful protectionists, while those who support them are always on the side of the angels.
They have also known that the economic benefits of trade
agreements
that reach beyond borders to shape domestic regulations – as with the tightening of patent rules or the harmonization of health and safety requirements – are fundamentally ambiguous.
Nonetheless, economists can be counted on to parrot the wonders of comparative advantage and free trade whenever trade
agreements
come up.
They have endorsed the propaganda portraying today’s trade deals as “free trade agreements,” even though Adam Smith and David Ricardo would turn over in their graves if they read the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
And yet, while the EU owes much to the multilateral trade system, since 2006, it, too, has shifted to bilateralism, scoring its biggest successes with free-trade
agreements
with Latin America and South Korea.
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