This paper focuses on the choice of an institutional framework to link trade policy to environmental issues. Current institutional constraints limit the WTO system to contractual relationships based on the gains from trade and militate against the inclusion of an "environmental chapter". These...

World Trade Organization (WTO) Green Room meetings are small gatherings of representatives from up to 30 member countries, invited by the Director-General. They are designed to provide the basis for a consensus on critical negotiating issues that can be brought to the WTO membership as a whole....