Study on Tobacco Regulation and Building Legal Mechanism of Security Guarantee for SCO Energy Club

Objectives: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) region has complementary advantages in energy and resources and closely related interests in geopolitical energy security. Common interests and close cooperation led to the creation of energy cooperation arrangements among the SCO countries. Particularly, owing to the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic, the states progressively incline to focus more on issues concerning tobacco control to promote sustainable environmental development. The establishment and improvement of the SCO energy club mechanism is an important way of SCO energy cooperation. This paper adopts the method of combining history with normative analysis, by analyzing the current of the SCO Energy Club running mechanism, proposes that the position and development target of the SCO Energy Club should be clear, the coordination of multilateral and bilateral and unilateral measures of energy function remains to be further play, contribution to the energy trade and investment disputes should be timely strengthen, then the SCO Energy Club could play a positive role in promoting the implementation of cross-border energy cooperation measures within the region. The paper proposes to use legal mechanism to construct SCO Energy Club so as to make it play the role of security guarantee mechanism more fully.