Analysts: Trade, climate change will collide at WTO unless members act

The global push to address climate change is “on a collision course” with the international trading system unless World Trade Organization members can get out ahead of the issue, analysts said this week. Disconnects will be decided by the WTO dispute settlement system unless WTO members act to determine what kind of climate-related trade measures are allowed and what kind of exceptions to WTO rules, if any, environmental provisions can receive, James Bacchus, director of the Center for Global Economic...