POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, 2Degrees, 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2080
• Professor: Steffi Hamann

Document Summary

Pols 2080 lecture week 4 --- supposedly the end of lecture 7. Investments are flowing more heavily than before into the developing world. Global governance: the country club of countries. Rich countries coordinate their economic affairs: the g20 and the g8. World trade gatt: general agreement on tariffs and trade (1947) Aim is lower trade barriers and boost international trade: principles. General agreement on trades and services: trips. Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights. Dealt with a lot of issues with gats: tariffs are not a very big issue anymore. High standards in a country: eventually it was called wto. Only international organization dealing with trades between nations. Meet every 2 years: general council. Body that does day to day business. All members are directly involved in decision making: often consensus decisions. Gather issues and solve all in round . The doha development adgenda: improve the trading prospects of developing countries.