d.

Individual Actions
The transition to climate natural industries is also going to take some participation from
citizens as well. Individuals are the final consumers of goods and services and as such have
the power to influence how goods and services are made by the types of goods and service
that they patronize. In 2019 the international movement ‘#flyskam’ was trending among
citizens around the world that were concerned about the carbon emissions from aeroplanes.
This was a campaign to boycott the patronage of airlines that were not climate neutral, and it
was influenced by local and international celebrities. While many airlines were undisturbed
by this movement, it did have an effect of creating awareness on the emissions by aeroplanes,
because a lot of people are vaguely aware that aeroplanes cause carbon emissions that are
detrimental to the environment but not too many people know just how detrimental it is. Thus,
such movements at the level of the individual can cause a meaningful dialogue on the
transition to climate neutral industries.

. At present, over 10 international airlines now fly with climate-neutral aircrafts and the
awareness of the consumers was instrumental to this change, but more needs to be done,
therefore all unclean products beef, non-electrical cars, cement, etc. will need to be avoided
by the consumers as much as possible. If there is not demand for unclean products there will
eventually seize to be a supply.

Moreover, funding for the transition to climate neutrality can be burdensome for the
government or companies, therefore rich individuals can support the transition with financial
assistance which can be used for the procurement of solar panel, electric vehicles, and other
sustainable technologies.
III. The sustainability agenda in the international trading system and a path forward for
furthering sustainability in trade policy
This section analyses the sustainability agenda in international trade and proposes a path
forward for the future.

1. The Sustainability Agenda and its importance in international trade

a. The importance of Sustainability
It is no epiphany that climate change is rapidly becoming the largest threat that our
population has faced. This problem continues to increasingly threaten our globe, and we are
now in an imperative stage where nations must prioritise the sustainability agenda to the
greatest extent.

In recent years, academics have identified clear disparities between the cataclysmic threat of
climate change and the standard of international environmental law that is in place. The
underlying theme of treaties that have arisen from environmental cooperation demonstrate
underwhelming procedural obligations and a general lack of legal enforcement, which is
simply not good enough in the face of environmental urgency. For example, the Paris
Agreement on Climate Change, which is supposedly a landmark in the multilateral climate
change progress, exercises voluntary efforts and weak enforcement mechanisms. For this
reason, legal academics criticize the landscape of international environmental law as being
incapable of securing meaningful sustainable development across nations.

Thus, there has been an array of literature, from academics, WTO members and
environmental lawyers which now points to utilising the functions of the international trading
system in order to create a meaningful impact on climate mitigation.