Lydgate, Emily (2018) Terms of trade: environment. In: Dingwerth, Klaus and Weinhardt, Clara (eds.) The Language of World Trade Politics: Unpacking the Terms of Trade. Routledge. (Accepted)
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Abstract
Relevant WTO treaties state that trade liberalization and environmental protection are ‘mutually supportive’. Yet negotiations reveal more contentious discourses: that environmental regulation comprises ‘green protectionism’, or that environmental protection is a ‘non-trade’ issue. Mutual supportiveness does not contradict, but rather encompasses, these divisions. It maintains positive ambiguity: an assertion that there is no conflict between economic development and environmental protection, and also an aspiration yet to be achieved. While it implies a duty to seek good faith solutions in event of conflicts of laws or norms, it does not proscribe any precise obligation. Thus it circumscribes the WTO’s environmental ambitions.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Environment, Trade, WTO |
Schools and Departments: | School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Law |
Research Centres and Groups: | Sussex Sustainability Research Programme |
Depositing User: | Emily Lydgate |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2018 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2018 15:24 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/73430 |
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