Trade and Environment in the World Trading System: A Decade of Stalemate?

Marc Williams

Global Environmental Politics, 2001, vol. 1, issue 4, 1-9

Abstract: This article assesses the first decade of the trade-environment debate, and explores the possibilities for reconciliation of competing positions on trade-environment issues. It explores three aspects of the continuing conflict over trade and environment in the World Trade Organization. Rejecting both optimistic and pessimistic accounts of the past and future of the trade-environment debate it argues that important changes have occurred that have transformed the debate. But, despite the normalization of the trade-environment debate around the concept of sustainable development significant points of contention remain among the various participants. Copyright (c) 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2001
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