Module II:
Trade and Environment –
Law and
Policy
Objective: To examine structures
of international trade law and international environmental law
Overview: This module outlines
the key institutions and frameworks of international trade law and
environmental law. It describes the general principles and institutions
that govern these bodies of law and policy, and provides an overview of
their intersection. In particular, this module reviews environmental
concerns addressed in a trade law context, by analyzing WTO agreements and
decisions, as well as approaches to environment and sustainable
development in regional and bilateral trade agreements. In addition, this
module examines structures of environmental law such as Multilateral
Environmental Agreements (MEAs), including those with trade measures. Case
law will be used as appropriate to illustrate the interactions among these
agreements.
Topics
covered in this module include:
§ Introduction
to trade law
11
§ Introduction
to environmental law
1
§ Structures of
trade law
o
WTO
§
General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade (GATT):
most favoured
nation, national
treatment,
quantitative restrictions
and
exceptions (GATT articles I,
III, XI
and XX)
§
Other WTO Agreements and
decisions that address
environmental concerns
o Regional and Bilateral Trade
Agreements (RTAs)
§
Overview of environmental
dimension
§
Environmental provisions in trade
agreements
o Domestic institutions
§ Structures
of environmental law
o Multilateral Environmental
Agreements (MEAs)
§
Interaction with trade agreements
o Environmental Cooperation
Agreements
o Levels of environmental protection,
enforcement and compliance
o Domestic institutions
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