Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789264180611
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology); Business; Commerce
Description: International conventions designed to combat global environmental problems -- known as Multilateral Environmental Agreements or MEAs -- often use trade measures, among other instruments. But in fact the term trade measures covers a variety of provisions, ranging from simple reporting requirements of transboundary movements to the use of trade sanctions imposed to change a country’s environmental behaviour. MEA use of trade measures has not been without controversy in both trade policy and environment policy circles. In order to try and disentangle the various strands of this important set of trade and environment issues, the OECD Joint Session of Trade and Environment Experts focused on the actual experience with the use of trade measures in three universally subscribed MEAs -- CITES (on endangered species), the Montreal Protocol (on ozone layer depleting substances) and the Basel Convention (on hazardous wastes). Whilst the case studies unsurprisingly reveal varying experiences, common issues and main themes, as well as a series of lessons learned, could nonetheless be drawn together from the case study analyses and have been assembled in the concluding chapter of this volume.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acronyms and Abbreviations; title: Chapter 1. Experience with the Use of Trade Measures in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) by Dale Andrew with Karsten Steinfatt; title: Chapter 2. Experience with the Use of Trade Measures in the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer by Jasn Adams; title: Chapter 3. Trade Measures in the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal by Jan Adams; title: Chapter 4. Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Synthesis Report of Three Case Studies by Jan Adams with Dale Andrew