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    The environmental costs of agricultural trade liberalisation: Mexico-U.S. maize trade under NAFTA

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004
    This paper examines the environmental implications of tripling US maize exports to Mexico, following massive tariff reductions under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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    Globalisation and the environment: lessons from the Americas

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004
    This report examines the environmental impacts of trade reform policies in the Americas. It is the product of a series of studies by the "Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas", which includes development and environmental economists from the regions.The report shows that in Latin America the environment has so far not profited from globalisation.
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    Trade preferences and environmental goods

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003
    This short paper explores the possibilities and challenges of the liberalisation of environmental goods and services.
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    Trade and environment at the World Trade Organisation

    World Trade Organization, 2004
    This report examines trade and environmental issues within the context of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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    Can the south afford to go green?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How does trade impact on the environment? Why do many southern governments regard environmental protection as a low priority? Are they justified in thinking that pressures to clean up their environmental act are part of a deceitful northern trade protectionism agenda? Could the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have benefits for the south?
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    Environment and trade: a handbook

    Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 2000
    This handbook focuses on how trade can affect the environment, for better and for worse, and how environmental concern can work through the trading system to foster or frustrate development, in both rich and poor countries.The paper argues that it is possible, but by no means automatic, that trade and environmental policies should support each other in achieving their objectives.
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    A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003
    This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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    A Framework for Assessing the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Biodiversity Conservation

    Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 1998
    Paper develops an analytical framework for assessing the effects of trade liberalization on biodiversity conservation. The framework is designed for individuals preparing or analyzing country biodiversity studies who require a conceptual and analytical tool for a systematic accounting of the relationships between trade liberalization and biodiversity conservation.
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    Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

    Overseas Development Institute, 1999
    The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.

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