Trade-environment tensions
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of International Activities
Expansion of world trade and worsening regional and global environmental problems increasingly bring trade and environmental interests into conflict. North-South tensions, in particular, have become acute, mainly because of differences in the scope, stringency, and cost of national environmental regulations. These tensions and their root causes are addressed in the Rio Declaration and in Agenda 21. Trade and environment issues also figure prominently in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in the Uruguay Round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and in the work of such international bodies as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This article examines the principal trade and environment tensions between developed and developing countries and describes some options for resolving them.
- OSTI ID:
- 5737470
- Journal Information:
- EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Journal; (United States), Vol. 19:2; ISSN 0145-1189
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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