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 95
... rules , reducing to a minimum the need for political judgments by GEO officials . Indeed , the more clear the rules , the smaller the scope for interpretation — and thus for dispute . In fact , one of the critical reasons for moving the ...
... rules , reducing to a minimum the need for political judgments by GEO officials . Indeed , the more clear the rules , the smaller the scope for interpretation — and thus for dispute . In fact , one of the critical reasons for moving the ...
Page 100
... rules to guide the use of environmental policies with trade effects . The starting point for this effort is the environmentalists ' fear that the current set of trade rules and the processes of trade liberalization will be used to ...
... rules to guide the use of environmental policies with trade effects . The starting point for this effort is the environmentalists ' fear that the current set of trade rules and the processes of trade liberalization will be used to ...
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... rules reflect this traditional notion and allow a party to limit trade where a product entering its market is deemed to be environmentally damaging or dangerous . But where the product itself is environmentally benign , GATT rules do ...
... rules reflect this traditional notion and allow a party to limit trade where a product entering its market is deemed to be environmentally damaging or dangerous . But where the product itself is environmentally benign , GATT rules do ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Origins of the Trade and Environment Conflict | 9 |
Conflict or Convergence | 35 |
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