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Download (PDF - 1.9 MB)Trade and environment policy is increasingly intertwined and the stakes are nearly always high in both trade and environmental terms. These issues are often complex and discussions tend to become very specialized, challenging policy practitioners to understand and follow all the various sub-strands of trade and environment debates. This Resource Book seeks to demystify these issues without losing the critical nuances.
This collaborative effort of some 61 authors from 34 countries provides relevant information as well as pertinent analysis on a broad set of trade and environment discussions while explaining, as clearly as possible, what are the key issues from a trade and environment perspective; what are the most important policy debates around them; and what are the different policy positions that define these debates.
The volume is structured and organized to be a reference document that is useful and easy to use. Our hope is that those actively involved in trade and environment discussions—as practitioners, as scholars and as activists—will be able to draw on the analysis and opinions in this book to help them advance a closer synergy between trade and environmental policy for the common goal of achieving sustainable development.
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Table of ContentsContributors (PDF - 170 kb)
Acronyms and Abbreviations (PDF - 170 kb)
Acknowledgements (PDF - 170 kb)
A User’s Guide – Adil Najam, Mark Halle and Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz (PDF - 170 kb)
Section I: Setting the Context
- The Evolution of the Trade and Environment Debate at the WTO – Hugo Cameron
Expert Opinion: The future of the trade and environment debate – Hector Torres
Expert Opinion: It’s time to make the global debate local – K.G. Anthony Hill (PDF - 251 kb)
- The Trade and Environment Policy Formulation Process – Doaa Abdel Motaal
Expert Opinion: The case for integrated assessment – Hussein Abaza
Expert Opinion: Policy should be made through negotiation, not litigation – Sabrina Shaw (PDF - 226 kb)
- Agriculture – Malena Sell
Expert Opinion: Agriculture, environment and social justice – Adriano Campolina
Expert Opinion: Dealing with the hidden agenda on agricultural subsidies – Vangelis Vitalis (PDF - 1.7 mb)
- Biotechnology – Heike Baumüller
Expert Opinion: Making the Cartagena Protocol work – Veit Koester
Expert Opinion: Biotechnology and the multilateral trading system – Gustavo Alanís-Ortega (PDF - 1.6 mb)
- Capacity Building – Christophe Bellmann
Expert Opinion: The Andean experience on capacity building – Luisa Elena Guinand and María Elena Gutiérrez (PDF - 1.6 mb)
- Climate Change and Energy – Malena Sell
Expert Opinion: Doing trade and climate policy together – ZhongXiang Zhang
Expert Opinion: Can trade be an instrument of climate policy? – Gao Pronove (PDF - 215 kb)
- Dispute Resolution – Howard Mann and Yvonne Apea
Expert Opinion: Reforming the DSU – Welber Barral
Expert Opinion: PPMs, trade law and the environment – Robert Howse (PDF - 1.5 mb)
- Environmental Goods and Non-agricultural Market Access – Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Linsey Sherman and Mahesh Sugathan
Expert Opinion: Liberalization of environmental goods: A double-edged sword or a panacea? – Beatrice Chaytor
Expert Opinion: Are environmental goods good for the South? – Magda Shahin (PDF - 1.4 mb)
- Environmental Services – Mahesh Sugathan and Johannes Bernabe
Expert Opinion: Making trade liberalization work for the poor – Sitanon Jesdapipat (PDF - 1.3 mb)
- Environmental Technologies – Sandeep Singh
Expert Opinion: Encouraging trade in biofuels – Suani Teixeira Coelho (PDF - 1.3 mb)
- Fisheries Subsidies – Anja von Moltke
Expert Opinion: Fisheries subsidies and beyond – John Kurien
Expert Opinion: Fixing Cotonou’s rules of origin regime – Roman Grynberg and Natallie Rochester (PDF - 245 kb)
- Illegal Trade in Natural Resources – Duncan Brack
Expert Opinion: Illegal trade in tropical timber – Chen Hin Keong (PDF - 205 kb)
- Intellectual Property Rights – David Vivas-Eugui and Heike Baumüller
Expert Opinion: The limits of geographical indications – Dwijen Rangnekar
Expert Opinion: Protecting genetic resources – Manuel Ruiz
Expert Opinion: Focusing on the local agenda – Stella Wattimah Simiyu (PDF - 240 kb)
- Investment – Luke Eric Peterson
Expert Opinion: Investment rules for sustainable development – Konrad von Moltke
Expert Opinion: Investment law as if development mattered – Marcos A. Orellana (PDF - 1 mb)
- Multilateral Environmental Agreements – Vicente Paola B. Yu III
Expert Opinion: The logic of the WTO-MEA relationship – Alejandro Jara
Expert Opinion: MEA misconceptions and contradictions – Rob Monro (PDF - 247 kb)
- Policy Coherence – Otto Genee
Expert Opinion: Promoting policy coherence – Bernice Wing Yee Lee
Expert Opinion: New policy coherence challenges – Stéphane Guéneau (PDF - 228 kb)
- Regional Arrangements – Aaron Cosbey
Expert Opinion: Fostering sustainable development with RTAs – Hank Lim and Matthew Walls
Expert Opinion: The “shadow” trading system of RTAs – Adil Najam and Dirk Swart (PDF - 236 kb)
- Standards and Labelling – Tom Rotherham
Expert Opinion: Eco-labels from a Southern perspective – Veena Jha
Expert Opinion: Confronting eco-labelling myths – Nicola Borregaard and Annie Dufey (PDF - 237 kb)
- Trade Facilitation – Luke Eric Peterson
Expert Opinion: Putting the environment into trade facilitation – Sachin Chaturvedi (PDF - 187 kb)
The Doha Ministerial Declaration: Annotating the Trade and Environment Linkages – Adil Najam and Trineesh Biswas (PDF - 208 kb)
A Trade and Environment Timeline – Compiled by Trineesh Biswas (PDF - 161 kb)
A Trade and Environment Glossary – Compiled by Sarah Mohan and Heike Baumüller (PDF - 214 kb)
Online and In-print Resources – Compiled by Sarah Mohan, Heike Baumüller and Ruth Fend (PDF - 486 kb)
