Compliance to Promote Sustainability

This chapter provides a fresh and transformative understanding of the international trading system for the promotion of a sustainable and prosperous future. Understanding the trading system as an enabler of social justice, this article provides specific architectures for the creation of a climate club linked to the international trade regime as an effective way to mitigate climate change and have a prosperous future for all. International trade has been responsible for much environmental harm. More trade implies more energy consumption and therefore more pollution. Now everyone assumes that trade damages the environment. But it does not have to be that way: international trade can be a very powerful tool for environmental protection.