ABSTRACT

Economic treaty regimes include a wide range of activities, interests and opportunities to craft governance systems. In this setting, it could be expected that various regimes and sectors would share little in common in terms of governance systems and goals, however, the opposite is true. Regardless the differences in industry, function and form of governance system, there are core interconnections between the economic aspects of these entities and environmental and social aspects which make the regimes relatable to each other and to regimes set out in Chapters 2 and 3. Additionally, these interconnections demonstrate the ways in which these regimes can be directly connected to and entrench the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).