Sustainable Processes and Production Methods (PPMs) in Private Standards: A Proxy for Trade Barriers or Decentralised Mechanisms for Environmental Governance?

Purpose - This chapter provides a legal and theoretical overview of environmental PPMs articulated in private standards. It seeks to expand the debate about environmental PPMs, elucidating important dimensions to the issue from the perspective of global governance and international trade law. One of the arguments advanced in this chapter is that a comprehensive analysis of environmental PPMs should consider not only existing body of literature on the subject of PPMs in international trade and environmental governance