New Special Issue on ‘Striking a Balance? How the European Union Manages the Environment-Trade Nexus’

Professors Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz from the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies have co-edited a timely interdisciplinary special issue on ‘Striking a Balance? How the European Union Manages the Environment-Trade Nexus’ of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. The special issue analyses how the European Union has managed the ‘environment-trade nexus’ over time, to what extent it has so far been successful, and how its policy nexus management can be improved in the future. It is the result of an international conference held at the College of Europe and comprises an introductory framing article by the co-editors, two articles on the EU’s management of the ‘environment-trade nexus’ in the multilateral context of the World Trade Organization, one contribution focussing on the EU’s implementation of Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in Free Trade Agreements, and three articles on the EU’s more recent autonomous trade instruments focussing on the environment, namely the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence, and the EU Deforestation Regulation.