ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the main international institution for trade, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and also concerns how the institutional integrity of the global carbon regime aligns with the values and policy objectives of the WTO. It explains why the WTO is part of the climate change regime's external environment and therefore forms part of the consideration of this regime's institutional integrity. As the WTO is clearly a current institution in the global carbon regime's external environment, in order to demonstrate context-integrity of this regime, the values of the WTO must be considered in the pursuit of the climate change regime's policy objectives. The principle of sustainable development clearly appears in both legal frameworks and represents a unifying principle, at least theoretically. Indeed this principle appears to be of some importance in the WTO agreements; however the balance that this principle requires in the context of the WTO may differ from that of the global carbon regime.
