The manufacture of clean energy goods and provision of related services, vital to climate change mitigation efforts, increasingly takes place through globally dispersed supply chains. In these supply chains, parts and components often cross borders multiple times before being finally put together as a part of a clean energy power plant. Frequent use of trade remedy measures on clean energy equipment and components can raise installation costs for clean energy developers and discourage investments, thereby hindering efforts to address climate change mitigation by rapidly scaling up clean energy production. This paper explores, maps and evaluates different options for disciplining or eliminating the use of trade remedies in the renewable energy sector, both within and outside the WTO framework, and proposes a shortlist of options that could be taken forward based on efficiency as well as legal and political feasibility. An article summarising the main findings of this paper can be accessed here .
Written by Kim Kampel