Linking Trade and Sustainable Practices

It's exciting to see the technology available for these types of programs, but recent years have left me a bit pessimistic about overcoming the geopolitical challenges of getting an international agreement on these types of practices, especially where trade implications are concerned. How do you think such considerations could be overcome? Surely any program like this that didn't have the buy-in of China or the U.S. would be destined to fail, wouldn't it? 

Some questions:

"It is in our collective best interest to assure that this sharing is done under a set of fair international regulations in order to avoid unexpected conflicts and assure that this is done for the benefit of all people."

The assumption, I take it, is that we're starting with a tabula rasa - a blank slate - and that all prior crimes against the environment are forgiven?

"Although nations interfering in the affairs of other nations are common, I don't believe that this is correct, although I don't intend to deal with that issue herein."

Since unenforced agreements are worse than useless, and unmet promises worse still, what mechanism do you propose to enforce these "fair international regulations? By not dealing with that issue herein, you avoid dealing with the heart of the matter.
For example: what happens when a U.S. president makes a separate agreement with another nation and refuses to levy a HENT against a violator of its HERS commitment?

"The hyperspectral sensors launched by the Carbon Mapper program appear to be capable of detecting, quantifying and differentiating “...greenhouse gases, airborne or waterborne substances that harm or materially change animal- or plant-life in the common ocean, atmosphere or those in other nations..."

...and we are expecting the hyperspectral sensors aboard David Bloomberg's Carbon Mapper satellite to accurately quantify the CO2 released by his $20 billion in natural gas investments?

I would expect - no, I would be certain - those hyperspectral sensors would severely underestimate the environmental impact of his investments. In the same way, Mark Jacobson overestimates the dangers of nuclear power from his lofty perch at Stanford's fossil-fuel-funded Natural Gas Initiative. It's only natural!