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There are often conflicts between proponents of trade and environmental activists. This paper shows, however, how trade agreements can be designed so as to motivate environmental conservation. I first analyze a standard trade model, where resource exploitation (e.g., deforestation) is a...
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serious implications to human health and the environment, to the global economy, and more broadly to good governance, national … security and sustainable development. Addressing these criminal activities affecting the environment is difficult exclusively …
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It addresses the issue of environmentally preferable products (EPPs) in the context of the Doha Development Round and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. It reviews available definitions; describes existing compilations of products and identifies broad categories of EPPs; and offers case...
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and water pollution or GHG emissions take the form of regulations that aim to change the behaviour of firms or households … pollution, with important implications for international trade in such equipment. The different indicators of regulatory … products and technologies, environmental policy can complement trade policy in supporting pollution-reduction efforts not just …
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A more resource efficient and circular economy will help to decouple global economic growth from natural resource use, decrease environmental degradation and improve energy efficiency. Existing circular economy policies have been largely focused at the national level. However, trade policies can...
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This report provides an analysis of how climate change damages may affect international trade in the coming decades and how international trade can help limit the costs of climate change. It analyses the impacts of climate change on trade considering both direct effects on infrastructure and...
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Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not known about …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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