Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalisation Agreements Methodologies

How can the environmental effects of trade liberalisation agreements be assessed ? Are available methodologies sufficiently tuned to current concerns? In order to take stock of the state of the art in assessment methodologies, the OECD organised a two-day technical workshop to focus on past practice...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2000.
Colección:Trade--environment.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; Workshop Report: Methodologies for environment assessment of trade liberalisation agreements; PANEL I. LESSONS FROM PAST ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS OF TRADE AGREEMENTS; Key approaches used in past environmental reviews and trade agreements; Lessons from past environmental reviews of trade agreements in Canada; Lessons from past environmental reviews in the United States; Final analytical framework to assess the environmental effects of NAFTA; The task for report on the environment and the European internal market; PANEL II. INITIATIVES FOR FUTURE ASSESSMENTS
  • Sustainability assessment of trade liberalisation agreementsSustainability impact assessment of the proposed WTO new round of multilateral negotiations; The EU sustainability impact assessment study: purpose and working method; New initiatives for environmental assessments: comments on the preceding papers; PANEL III. APPROACHING TRADE-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS BY SECTOR; Taking stock of methodologies for estimating the environmental effects of liberalised agricultural trade; Modelling the effects of trade liberalisation on forest cover: some methodological issues
  • Liberalising services trade: an approach to the assessment of environmental effectsEstimating the effects of trade liberalisation on manufacturing pollution; PANEL IV. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; Overview of developing country interests in trade and environment; The impact of trade and investment policies on the environment: Uganda's fisheries industry; Understanding the costs and benefits of trade liberalisation: a developing country perspective; PANEL V. MODELLING AS A TOOL AND DATA NEEDS; Modelling the impacts of trade agreements on the environment
  • Estimating environmental effects of trade agreements with global CGE models: a GTAP application to IndonesiaEnvironmental effects of trade liberalisation agreements: the COMPASS approach; Trade liberalisation and pollution-intensive industry in developing countries: a partial equilibrium approach; PANEL VI. ASSESSING REGULATORY EFFECTS OF TRADE LIBERALISATION; Assessing regulatory effects of new trade rules; Assessing the effects of trade liberalisation on domestic environmental regulations: towards trade-environment policy integration
  • PANEL VII. IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES: TIMING AND CIVIL SOCIETY FEEDBACKTiming and public participation issues in undetaking environmental assessments of trade liberalisation agreements; Timing and public participation issues; Implementation issues; Framework for public participation in CEC activities; Trade and environment Seattle and in a new round?; Comment on timing and public participation issues; ANNEX I; Programme of the OECD Workshop; ANNEX II; Environmental reviews of trade policies and agreements