Publication Date:
2021-05-19
Description:
In 1997, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, with the financial support
of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and
Development, initiated a project to examine the relationship between the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the rules of international
trade–those administered by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), in
particular. The project was motivated by a widely shared concern that the
aims of the CBD, which are essentially to conserve and equitably distribute
the benefits of the environment, might be undermined by the WTO, which
aims at the liberalisation of trade. Liberalised trade has the potential to
integrate economies, regionally and globally, in mutually beneficial ways.
But some observers are concerned that it may do so at a cost of impairing
the environment and amplifying disparities in wealth, much of which, in
poorer nations, is disproportionately represented in endowments of natural
resources. Other commentators have claimed to locate synergistic potential,
suggesting, for example, that trade law’s anti-subsidy disciplines might be
conscripted into the campaign against environmental abuses such as overfishing.
Keywords:
Biodiversity
;
International trade
;
Fisheries
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
Conference Material
,
Non-Refereed
,
Paper
Format:
172320 bytes
Format:
application/pdf
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