The Role of Climate Change in Global Economic Governance

Bradly J. Condon, LLB, LLM, PhD, is the WTO Chair Professor of international trade law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Senior Fellow, Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance, School of Law, Bond University, Australia. He is the Founding Director of the Center for International Economic Law. Dr. Condon has authored or co-authored seven books and has published numerous articles in international journals. He is a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. In addition to teaching international economic law at ITAM, he teaches international dispute settlement for the WTO to government officials, in Geneva and in Latin America. Tapen Sinha, BSc, MSc, PhD, is the AXA Chair Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He is the Founding Director of the International Center for Pension Research. He is a Special Professor in the School of Business of the University of Nottingham. He has edited/co-authored a dozen books and one hundred and fifty articles on various subjects in international journals. He is a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute and a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Overview of the Climate Change Challenge ; 3. World Trade Organization (WTO) Law ; 4. Intellectual Property Rights ; 5. Foreign Investment Law ; 6. Economics of Climate Change ; 7. Implications of Climate Change for the Financial Industry ; 8. Climate Finance ; 9. Conclusion