European Energy and Environmental Law Review
Volume 5, Issue 11 (1996) pp. 306 – 314

https://doi.org/10.54648/eelr1996054

Abstract

In December of this year the First World Trade Organization ("WT0") Ministerial Conference will consider the potential clash between WTO trade rules and trade sanctions in multilateral environment agreements. There are real difficulties in reconciling the two regimes, and to achieve a workable accommodation, amendments to the WTO's GATT regime appear necessary, as well perhaps, as changes in the "culture" of both trading and environmental systems: the way rules are developed and administered. The paper explores the nature of the trade-environment conflict in a GATT context and considers some options for creating a greater synthesis of trade land environment regimes.

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