Conflicting perspectives in trade and environmental negotations

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International trade negotiations have recently tackled the issue of possible free trade restrictions, justified - among others - on the basis of environmental concerns. Also, some analyses of international environmental agreements (especially in the field of climate change) have highlighted the key role played by changes in the terms of trade in determining the cost of environmental policies. Yet, secondary effects of international trade remain disregarded in many environmental policies, whereas the introduction of environmental trade barriers has been resisted, arguing that this may hide a Trojan horse of a renewed protectionism. This paper reviews the debate on trade and the environment in the two fields of environmental and trade negotiations, highlighting the different and somewhat conflicting approach adopted in the two cases. A numerical general equilibrium model is used to illustrate how different

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 68.2002

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Environment ; Computable General Equilibrium Models
• Subject: Trade policy ; environmental policy ; climate change ; general equilibrium models ; Internationale Handelspolitik ; Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Verhandlungen ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Buchner, Barbara K. ; Roson, Roberto
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/119676
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET