Direito em Movimento - Volume 19 - Número 1 - 1º semestre - 2021

86 Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 19 - n. 1, p. 81-107, 1º sem. 2021 ARTIGOS hunger and discrimination; and providing access to justice and opportunity for the future. ( HIGGINS, 1999, p. 87-111). The SDGs are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.The Goals interconnect and in or- der to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve each Goal and target by 2030. (UN, 2020) The adoption of the SDGs has the potential to influence law (if soft at that) under international and domestic regimes. (ARAJÄRVI, 2017) Spe- cifically, sustainable development has served as a mostly normative concept in international, regional and domestic law. (VIÑUALES, 2019). In addi- tion to the SDGs and other mechanisms designed to advance sustainable development directly, the concept of sustainable development informs or animates international law under various international accords, including Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol (1998) (the ‘Clean Development Me- chanism’) and in Article 6(4) of the Paris Agreement (2015-2016) (often called ‘Sustainable Development Mechanism’). Regionally, sustainable de- velopment is also an explicit component of several bilateral and regional trade agreements, including the 2018 European Union Action Plan on Trade and Sustainable Development. Moreover, sustainable development has played an explicit or norma- tive role in shaping the adjudication of international law. As to the former, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body 11 invoked the Ge- neral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade’s 12 expressed objective of sustainable development when interpreting the terms ‘exhaustible natural resources’ under Article XX(g) (‘relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restric- tions on domestic production or consumption’) as reflecting ‘contemporary concerns of the community of nations about the protection and conserva- 11 See <https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/appellate_body_e.htm >. 12 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Marrakech, 15 April 1994, available at <http://www.wto.org> .