Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the FutureDaniel C. Esty, Daniel C.. Esty, Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Professor Daniel Esty Institute 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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An environmental “ legitimacy ' ' test should be employed to assess the underlying environmental injury or interest of the jurisdiction whose standards or regulations are in question and whose use of trade measures in support of its ...
An environmental “ legitimacy ' ' test should be employed to assess the underlying environmental injury or interest of the jurisdiction whose standards or regulations are in question and whose use of trade measures in support of its ...
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If this was in fact the case , the scope of any GATT review should be narrowed to the question of whether the penalties imposed were clearly disproportional to the environmental harm . The broader question of whether the United States ...
If this was in fact the case , the scope of any GATT review should be narrowed to the question of whether the penalties imposed were clearly disproportional to the environmental harm . The broader question of whether the United States ...
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3 The Critical Question The critical question in deciding whether low environmental standards on the part of a trade competitor raise competitiveness concerns serious enough to justify a GATT - endorsed policy intervention must be : why ...
3 The Critical Question The critical question in deciding whether low environmental standards on the part of a trade competitor raise competitiveness concerns serious enough to justify a GATT - endorsed policy intervention must be : why ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Origins of the Trade and Environment Conflict | 9 |
Conflict or Convergence | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future |
| Authors | Daniel C. Esty, Daniel C.. Esty, Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Professor Daniel Esty |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Institute for International Economics, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0881322059, 9780881322057 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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