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  Liberalising trade in environmental goods: some practical considerations

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This chapter explores some practical issues that have arisen in the TO negotiations on environmental goods and services, especially issues pertaining to liberalising trade in environmental goods.The paper outlines the following concerns: environmental goods are not covered by a single chapter of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System and therefore an agreement on environ
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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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  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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  Partners in crime: the UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea’s rainforest

  Greenpeace International, 2005

  This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.Based on investigations by Greenpeace, the document accuses the UK timber trade of fuelling illegal production of plywood and hardwood thus encouraging the destruction of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.
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  The digital dump: exporting re-use and abuse to Africa

  Basel Action Network, 2005

  This report reveals that large quantities of obsolete computers, televisions, mobile phones, and other used electronic equipment exported from USA and Europe to Lagos, Nigeria for “re-use and repair” are ending up gathering dust in warehouses or being dumped and burned near residences in empty lots, roadsides and in swamps creating serious health and environmental contamination from the toxic leac
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  The impact of trade liberalization on agricultural biological diversity: domestic support measures and their effects on agricultural biological diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2005

  This study provides an in-depth analysis of the potential implications for biodiversity of a reduction in and reform of agricultural support activities.
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  Tourism, poaching and wildlife conservation: what can integrated conservation and development projects accomplish?

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  This paper examines Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs), which have frequently been established in Africa to improve wildlife conservation and the welfare of local communities.
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  Greasy palms – palm oil, the environment and big business

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This report summarises two separate Friends of the Earth reports on, respectively, the increasing demand for palm oil in developed countries, and the social and environmental impacts of palm oil cultivation in Southeast Asia - focussing particularly on Indonesia.

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