Cosimo Beverelli is a research economist at the WTO and programme associate in the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economics, on the effects of international fragmentation of production, the impact of services trade policies on manufacturing, trade facilitation, trade policy substitution, and international migration. Jürgen Kurtz is Professor of International Economic Law at the European University Institute. His most recent book is The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems (2016). Professor Kurtz has acted as an ICSID arbitrator and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Dispute Settlement and Journal of World Investment and Trade. Damian Raess is SNSF Assistant Professor in Political Science at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, specializing in international political economy. He is the co-author of the LABPTA dataset, which provides detailed information that documents key features of labor provisions across preferential trade agreements signed from 1990 onwards.

• Part I. Penetration and Diffusion of the Sustainable Development Goals: 1. A cross-cutting legal analysis of the EU PTAs' chapters on sustainable development: further steps towards the attainment of the SDGs? Giovanna Adinolfi; 2. The European Union's new international investment policy and the United Nation's sustainable development goals: integration as motor of substantive policy change? J. Robert Basedow; 3. Natural resources management in the SDGs era: insights from the WTO case law Ilaria Espa; Part II. Top Down: Public Approaches to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: 4. The trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Jean-Frederic Morin and Jacob Schwab; 5. Facilitating sustainable investment: the role and limits of investment promotion agencies Sarah Bauerle Danzman and Geoffrey Gertz; Part III. Bottom-Up: Private Sector and Civil Society Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals: 6. Voluntary standards, trade and sustainable development Matteo Fiorini, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan and Bernard Hoekman; 7. The role of VSS in sustainable livelihoods for cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire Lee Ann Jackson and Kossivi Balema; 8. Unblocking the trade pipes: using blockchain technology to facilitate trade for sustainable development Alisa DiCaprio, Christine McDaniel, Badri G. Narayanan and Hanna C. Norberg; 9. The effects of environmental costs on public support for foreign direct investment: differences between the United States and India Hye-Sung Kim and Youngchae Lee.

'The perfect sequel to Kurtz's classic The WTO and International Investment Law, but this time converging issues between the trade and investment regimes, on one hand, and sustainable-development goals (SDGs), on the other hand. Beverelli, Kurtz, and Raess offer a pragmatic, case-study-based, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive collection of essays on how to conquer the dungeon of the 2030 Agenda for Development via trade and investment. This is state-of-the-art reading for academics as well as policy-makers who want to avail themselves of the fundamental vectors of development in a post-COVID-19 sustainable world.' Makane Moïse Mbengue, Professor of International Law, University of Geneva and Sciences Po Paris

Cosimo Beverelli is a research economist at the WTO and programme associate in the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economics, on the effects of international fragmentation of production, the impact of services trade policies on manufacturing, trade facilitation, trade policy substitution, and international migration. Jürgen Kurtz is Professor of International Economic Law at the European University Institute. His most recent book is The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems (2016). Professor Kurtz has acted as an ICSID arbitrator and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Dispute Settlement and Journal of World Investment and Trade. Damian Raess is SNSF Assistant Professor in Political Science at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, specializing in international political economy. He is the co-author of the LABPTA dataset, which provides detailed information that documents key features of labor provisions across preferential trade agreements signed from 1990 onwards.

• Part I. Penetration and Diffusion of the Sustainable Development Goals: 1. A cross-cutting legal analysis of the EU PTAs' chapters on sustainable development: further steps towards the attainment of the SDGs? Giovanna Adinolfi; 2. The European Union's new international investment policy and the United Nation's sustainable development goals: integration as motor of substantive policy change? J. Robert Basedow; 3. Natural resources management in the SDGs era: insights from the WTO case law Ilaria Espa; Part II. Top Down: Public Approaches to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: 4. The trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Jean-Frederic Morin and Jacob Schwab; 5. Facilitating sustainable investment: the role and limits of investment promotion agencies Sarah Bauerle Danzman and Geoffrey Gertz; Part III. Bottom-Up: Private Sector and Civil Society Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals: 6. Voluntary standards, trade and sustainable development Matteo Fiorini, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan and Bernard Hoekman; 7. The role of VSS in sustainable livelihoods for cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire Lee Ann Jackson and Kossivi Balema; 8. Unblocking the trade pipes: using blockchain technology to facilitate trade for sustainable development Alisa DiCaprio, Christine McDaniel, Badri G. Narayanan and Hanna C. Norberg; 9. The effects of environmental costs on public support for foreign direct investment: differences between the United States and India Hye-Sung Kim and Youngchae Lee.

'The perfect sequel to Kurtz's classic The WTO and International Investment Law, but this time converging issues between the trade and investment regimes, on one hand, and sustainable-development goals (SDGs), on the other hand. Beverelli, Kurtz, and Raess offer a pragmatic, case-study-based, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive collection of essays on how to conquer the dungeon of the 2030 Agenda for Development via trade and investment. This is state-of-the-art reading for academics as well as policy-makers who want to avail themselves of the fundamental vectors of development in a post-COVID-19 sustainable world.' Makane Moïse Mbengue, Professor of International Law, University of Geneva and Sciences Po Paris

Cosimo Beverelli is a research economist at the WTO and programme associate in the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economics, on the effects of international fragmentation of production, the impact of services trade policies on manufacturing, trade facilitation, trade policy substitution, and international migration. Jürgen Kurtz is Professor of International Economic Law at the European University Institute. His most recent book is The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems (2016). Professor Kurtz has acted as an ICSID arbitrator and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Dispute Settlement and Journal of World Investment and Trade. Damian Raess is SNSF Assistant Professor in Political Science at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, specializing in international political economy. He is the co-author of the LABPTA dataset, which provides detailed information that documents key features of labor provisions across preferential trade agreements signed from 1990 onwards.

• Part I. Penetration and Diffusion of the Sustainable Development Goals: 1. A cross-cutting legal analysis of the EU PTAs' chapters on sustainable development: further steps towards the attainment of the SDGs? Giovanna Adinolfi; 2. The European Union's new international investment policy and the United Nation's sustainable development goals: integration as motor of substantive policy change? J. Robert Basedow; 3. Natural resources management in the SDGs era: insights from the WTO case law Ilaria Espa; Part II. Top Down: Public Approaches to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: 4. The trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Jean-Frederic Morin and Jacob Schwab; 5. Facilitating sustainable investment: the role and limits of investment promotion agencies Sarah Bauerle Danzman and Geoffrey Gertz; Part III. Bottom-Up: Private Sector and Civil Society Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals: 6. Voluntary standards, trade and sustainable development Matteo Fiorini, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan and Bernard Hoekman; 7. The role of VSS in sustainable livelihoods for cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire Lee Ann Jackson and Kossivi Balema; 8. Unblocking the trade pipes: using blockchain technology to facilitate trade for sustainable development Alisa DiCaprio, Christine McDaniel, Badri G. Narayanan and Hanna C. Norberg; 9. The effects of environmental costs on public support for foreign direct investment: differences between the United States and India Hye-Sung Kim and Youngchae Lee.

'The perfect sequel to Kurtz's classic The WTO and International Investment Law, but this time converging issues between the trade and investment regimes, on one hand, and sustainable-development goals (SDGs), on the other hand. Beverelli, Kurtz, and Raess offer a pragmatic, case-study-based, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive collection of essays on how to conquer the dungeon of the 2030 Agenda for Development via trade and investment. This is state-of-the-art reading for academics as well as policy-makers who want to avail themselves of the fundamental vectors of development in a post-COVID-19 sustainable world.' Makane Moïse Mbengue, Professor of International Law, University of Geneva and Sciences Po Paris