Trade and Environment in the World Trading System: A Decade of Stalemate?
- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Global Environmental Politics
- Vol. 1 (4), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1162/152638001317146336
Abstract
This article assesses the first decade of the trade-environment debate, and explores the possibilities for reconciliation of competing positions on trade-environment issues. It explores three aspects of the continuing conflict over trade and environment in the World Trade Organization. Rejecting both optimistic and pessimistic accounts of the past and future of the trade-environment debate it argues that important changes have occurred that have transformed the debate. But, despite the normalization of the trade-environment debate around the concept of sustainable development significant points of contention remain among the various participants.Keywords
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