Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalisation Agreements [electronic resource]: Methodologies /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
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 and new tools for assessing the environmental effects of trade agreements. Some two dozen experts from governments, international organisations, universities international organisations, universities and NGOs active in this area presented lessons from past practice and results of the considerable advances made in recent years. This volume brings together the papers presented during the two-day workshop by the invited experts and the comments from a range of governmental and international organisation practitioners and representatives of civil society who participated in the workshop. In addition to the presentations on methodologies, this book includes the workshop rapporteur's summary of the gaps in the existing research in this field.
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
Proceedings of a workshop held at OECD headquarters in Paris on 26 and 27 October 1999.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 and new tools for assessing the environmental effects of trade agreements. Some two dozen experts from governments, international organisations, universities international organisations, universities and NGOs active in this area presented lessons from past practice and results of the considerable advances made in recent years. This volume brings together the papers presented during the two-day workshop by the invited experts and the comments from a range of governmental and international organisation practitioners and representatives of civil society who participated in the workshop. In addition to the presentations on methodologies, this book includes the workshop rapporteur's summary of the gaps in the existing research in this field.
International trade
Commercial policy
Trade Agreements