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  Trade and environmental standards

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (8th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) explores the effects that global trade has on the environment and how environmental regulations can be made compatible with trade agreements.Claims include:liberal economists are optimistic about the complementarity between trade and environmental goals: the environment is a factor of production that affects a cou
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  Logs of war: the timber trade and armed conflict

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002

  This report explores the relationship between the trade in timber and armed conflict.
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  Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2003

  This paper demonstrates that almost 30 Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) incorporate trade measures, regulating or restraining the trade in particular substances or products, either between parties to the treaty and/or between parties and non-parties.
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  Collision course: free trade’s free ride on the global climate

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Economic activity can cause environmental degradation, it is clear. But just how great is the impact of international trade on the global environment? This study focuses on the extent to which the transportation of goods around the world increases greenhouse gases and leads directly to climate change.
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  New genetics, food and agriculture: scientific discoveries, societal dilemmas

  International Council for Science, 2003

  This report presents an overview of the findings of a selection of approximately 50 science-based reviews, published in years 2000-2003, on modern genetics and its applications in food and agriculture and the environment.The purpose of this analysis is to consider what are the issues that concern various societies, and, on the basis of the science underpinning the discoveries in modern genetics
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  Is trade good or bad for the environment?: sorting out the causality

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2001

  The authors ask whether economic growth eventually brings environmental improvement and whether cross-border integration helps or hurts in this process. That first question is the much-studied environmental Kuznet's curve, while the second is the focus of this paper.There is an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and some measures of environmental quality.
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  NEPAD and the environment: envisaging the ecological consequences of outward-oriented development in Africa

  World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002, 2002

  The author argues that NEPAD will lead Africa's integration into the global economy through specialisation in the primary sector.
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  International trade in forest products and the environment (Bourke / Unasylva)

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999
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  Trade and Environment: A Business Perspective

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 1997

  The World Business Council for Sustainable Development rejects the notion of a trade versus environment debate.This report sets out directions and opportunities that can lead to mutual support between environmental protection and improvement, to an open trading system and to sustainable development.
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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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