I have some truly exciting strands of thinking that are starting to come together on many things trade & environment. I will hopefully be able to have time to write and post them here soon. In the meantime, today I … Continue reading
I’ve been getting some questions lately both at work and through mail from people curious about just what the relationship is in the WTO between the multilateral rule of Most Favoured Nation and the “further deepening” of preferences that is … Continue reading
Remember how 2011 was going to be the “make it or break it” year for Doha? I guess it broke then, because we are now facing a situation where Pascal Lamy, DG of WTO, has said outright not to expect … Continue reading
There are a lot of things flying in the air right now in the nexus of trade & environment. I’ve decided to outline a few of the major ones that have caught my attention lately. First, the UN very recently came … Continue reading
“The era of cheap natural abundance is over. We must now compose common rules for an era in which nature is valuable.” The above quote is from Paul Collier’s book The Plundered Planet, and it cuts to the heart of … Continue reading
China has been causing quite a stir lately in the environmental community through its proposed carbon tax. As is the case with China’s tightly controlled media landscape, this announcement came somewhat from the blue and caught many by surprise. Especially … Continue reading
Water and the sustainable use of it is an area that has clear trade implications. Here I will present a quick overview of the main issues and how they relate to the current trade framework. Whenever you hear about the … Continue reading
Where are we now with regards to the interface of trade and climate change? It is a rather frustrating time at the moment for moving multilateral governance forward. In the climate negotiations, what has been agreed on in the form of … Continue reading
Before I make another more analytical post on the multilateral trade-climate negotiations link, I would like to interject with a tip on two articles that touch on what we have been discussing here. The first is a brief note from … Continue reading
How will the trade and climate intersection be affected by a more regional world in the face of the continually stalling multilateralism that we are seeing? What are the positives and negatives of this new landscape? That we are seeing significant regional … Continue reading
