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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... benefits in having different jurisdictions applying a range of environmental policy approaches as a way of testing alternative courses of action . In fact , US federalism is often touted as providing 50 state “ laboratories ” for policy ...
... benefits in having different jurisdictions applying a range of environmental policy approaches as a way of testing alternative courses of action . In fact , US federalism is often touted as providing 50 state “ laboratories ” for policy ...
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... benefits.33 This test should be applied with the greatest deference when the harm in question is local to the jurisdiction whose environmental policies are under review.34 Thus , the judgment about how to approach local environmental ...
... benefits.33 This test should be applied with the greatest deference when the harm in question is local to the jurisdiction whose environmental policies are under review.34 Thus , the judgment about how to approach local environmental ...
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... benefit or proportionality requirement , it is not only reasonable but essential to long - term environmental progress to screen for poorly conceived policies that yield benefits completely out of proportion to their negative impact on ...
... benefit or proportionality requirement , it is not only reasonable but essential to long - term environmental progress to screen for poorly conceived policies that yield benefits completely out of proportion to their negative impact on ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Origins of the Trade and Environment Conflict | 9 |
Conflict or Convergence | 35 |
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