Environmental Provisions in Recent Regional Trade Agreements (2008 & 2009)

Abstract

Despite a failure to achieve closure on the Doha Round of WTO negotiations, regional and bilateral trade agreements involving a variety of countries have continued to be negotiated, signed and implemented. Most of the recent trade agreements have contained some environmental provisions, ranging from a pledge to protect the environment to very extensive environmental requirements. These results appear to reflect a recognition that trade has environmental consequences and that trade agreements can be constructed to help mitigate such effects.environment, environmental provisions, free trade, trade agreements, Environmental Economics and Policy, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Relations/Trade, Political Economy,