Title: On the Clash and Coordination between WTO Trade and Environmental Policies
Abstract: As the main trend of economic globalization,the liberalization of trade has an increasingly great impact on the environment.Out of its enormous concern with environmental protection and sustainable development,the WTO has adopted a considerable number of unique policies and measures in this regard,but the WTO trade and environmental policies have encountered many clashes.The WTO must adhere to the target of sustainable development in its coordination between environmental protection and international trade,and lay emphasis on environmental protection in its promotion of free trade.The WTO must strengthen coordination between its rules and the multilateral agreement on environmental protection so as to bring trade policies in line with environmental laws.Cooperation between the developed nations and the developing nations should be expanded on the basis of shared but differentiated responsibilities.Efforts should be made to give full play to the dispute settlement mechanism with due respect to the DSB interpretation of the trade and environmental rules.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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