Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the FutureInstitute for International Economics, 1994 - 319 pages There is growing consensus that new international rules and principles are needed to reconcile conflicts, and promote complementarities, between trade and environmental goals. The issue is especially acute for very poor countries striving for rapid economic growth. Esty, a former Environmental Protection Agency official with extensive experience in trade and environmental negotiations, examines the vital connections between trade, environment and development. He argues that current international trade rules and institutions must be significantly reformed to address environmental concerns while still promoting economic growth and development. Esty offers new international rules and principles to help make trade and environmental policies work together to better achieve sustainable economic progress. He concludes with recommendations for a Global Environmental Organization (GEO) to promote simultaneous achievement of trade environmental goals. |
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Page 171
... particularly important as a transitional tool to enable developing coun- tries to elevate their environmental laws and regulations . Particularly if competitiveness pressures build momentum for common environmental standards ...
... particularly important as a transitional tool to enable developing coun- tries to elevate their environmental laws and regulations . Particularly if competitiveness pressures build momentum for common environmental standards ...
Page 176
... particularly useful when countries at disparate levels of economic development want to advance their trade relationship and at the same time want to mitigate the political tensions created by dramatically different environmental ...
... particularly useful when countries at disparate levels of economic development want to advance their trade relationship and at the same time want to mitigate the political tensions created by dramatically different environmental ...
Page 178
... particularly for coun- tries at a comparable level of development , some effort at convergence of standards should be undertaken.40 The GATT is plainly in no position to manage the development of environmental performance requirements ...
... particularly for coun- tries at a comparable level of development , some effort at convergence of standards should be undertaken.40 The GATT is plainly in no position to manage the development of environmental performance requirements ...
Contents
Origins of the Trade and Environment Conflict | 1 |
Conflict or Convergence | 35 |
Making Trade Work for the Environment | 65 |
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