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  Environmental goods negotiations: issues and options for ensuring win-win outcomes

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  In analysing possible approaches for ensuring balanced trade gains in the ongoing WTO negotiations, the author suggests that a combination of special and differential treatment (SDT) provisions and environmentally preferable products (EPP) of export interest to developing countries, could offer a balanced deal to developing countries.
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  Is NAFTA working for Mexico?

  Department of Economics, Tufts University, USA, 2006

  This article examines the environmental predictions prior to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and what has occurred since its implementation. The article then reviews the record of the environmental commission set up under NAFTA, the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation to monitor environmental problems related to the agreement in the three signatory countries.
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  Trade liberalisation and the environment in Vietnam

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  This paper analyses Vietnam’s shift in trading and investment patterns with a particular focus on the environmental implications resulting from greater openness of the economy over the past decade.The paper finds that:following liberalisation manufacturing output has been significantly higher from the water pollution intensive sectors compared to the less pollution intensive sectors
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  WTO and Sustainable Development

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006

  This paper analyses the relationship between trade and sustainable development, in particular the relationship between trade and the environment.
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  Fair trade: gender makes the difference

  IUCN Environmental Law Programme, The World Conservation Union, Bonn, 2004

  This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective. Taking account of gender in fair trade is one way to ensure that women are recognised in and paid a fair wage for their contribution to agricultural and production processes.
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  Is the WTO the only way? safeguarding multilateral environmental agreements from international trade rules and settling trade and environment disputes outside the WTO

  Friends of the Earth, 2004

  Intended for governments, this policy brief recommends other fora, outside of the WTO, for debating and settling the relationship between trade and environmental issues in particular the principles dictating the WTO/MEA relationship and for settling disputes between trade and environment matters.It begins by illustrating what it sees as the failure both of the current WTO negotiating process to
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  The EU's responsiblity at the WTO: environment, gender and development

  Women in Development Europe, 2006

  This publication aims to contribute to a constructive dialogue between civil society representatives from the North and the South and representatives from the EU that could feed into an EU trade policy consistent with social and gender justice and environmental sustainability.
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  The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs

  Department of Economics, Tufts University, USA, 2006

  This paper asks: 'Will unbearable regulatory costs ruin the US economy?' It argues that what is remarkable about regulatory costs is not their heavy economic burden, but rather their lightness.
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  Trade and Environment Review 2006

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2006

  The review examines the impact of environmental requirements on access to markets by developing countries. It examines both the opportunities and challenges presented by these requirements, which are increasingly stringent, complex and multi-dimensional.
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  The tyranny of free trade: wasted natural wealth and lost livelihoods

  Friends of the Earth International, 2006

  This publication argues that current trade negotiations pose danger to people and their environments around the world, and highlights how people are losing their livelihoods and natural resources in the process. Those on the losing end include farmers, fisherfolk, women, indigenous peoples and literally millions of others around the world who depend on environmental resources in order to survive.

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