more recently it was developed in a series of studies undertaken for unctad cottier a and cottier and baracolpinhao in the first instance members would have to do some scoping they may opt to implement the entire range of activities and sectors under the kyoto protocol including electricity generation transport and industrial processes or they may agree on a particular sector to be taken as an initial target eg electricity generation for instance renewable energy obligations for electricity imposed on grid operators and retailers constitute commitments under the general agreement on trade in services gats and may be specified in their schedules accordingly a potential overlap with certain aspects of gats negotiations on energy services is not without problems in particular with respect to the scheduling of commitments traditionally the industry has not distinguished between energyrelated goods and services in ofher words an energyneutral classification can always be made energybased in a schedule of commitments of a member