Report on Trade, Environment, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

Publication: Report
Citation: Tarasofsky, Richard 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism (CAT-E). Chatham House, Ecologic Institute, London, Berlin.

Tarasofsky, Richard 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism (CAT-E). Chatham House, Ecologic Institute, London, Berlin.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Trade, Environment and Development

The North-South Dimensions

Year 2004

Project:FP 5

Following the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, the agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) expanded to incorporate a number of environment related issues, such as services, intellectual property rights, and investment related measures. The EU-funded CAT+E project (Concerted Action on Trade and Environment) aims to ensure dialogue and debate between European Research Institutes on these issues. Through a series of international conferences and publications, the CAT+E network analyses the current trade and environment agenda, strengthens co-operation among European Research institutes and identifies needs for further research. Ecologic's CAT+E reports are available for download. The trade and environment policy and research agendas have expanded rapidly in recent years. Following conclusion of the Uruguay Round, the agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) expanded to incorporate a number of environment related issues, such as services, intellectual property rights, or investment related measures. This rapid expansion of the trade and environment agenda has created a major area of research that is attracting researchers in virtually all member states.

Concerted Action on Trade + Environment (CAT+E)

Dec 2002 - Nov 2005

Publication:Report

Klasing, Anneke und Markus Knigge 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and European Trade Policy Development (CAT-E). Ecologic, Berlin.

Report on Trade, Environment, and European Trade Policy Development

Year 2005

Publication:Report

Blobel, Daniel; Markus Knigge and Benjamin Görlach 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and Sustainability Impact Assessment. Concerted Action on Trade and Environment (CAT&E). Ecologic, Berlin.

Report on Trade, Environment, and Sustainability Impact Assessment

Year 2005

Publication:Report

Hamada, Ana-Mari und Markus Knigge 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and Transparency and Participation (CAT-E). Earth University, Ecologic, Berlin.

Report on Trade, Environment, and Transparency and Participation

Year 2005

Publication:Report

Richard Tarasofsky 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and Intellectual Property Rights (CAT-E). Ecologic Institute, Berlin.

Report on Trade, Environment, and Intellectual Property Rights

Year 2005

Publication:Report

Knigge, Markus and Caroline Nuffort 2005: Report on Trade, Environment, and Trade in Services (CAT-E). Ecologic Institute, Berlin.

Report on Trade, Environment, and Trade in Services

Year 2005

Publication:Report

Knigge, Markus 2005: Report on Trade and Multilateral Environmental Agreements (CAT-E). Ecologic Institute, Berlin.

Report on Trade and Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Year 2005

Language: English
Authorship: Richard Tarasofsky, LLM, LLB
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research (DG Research), International
Year: 2005
Dimension: 15 pp.
Project: Concerted Action on Trade + Environment (CAT+E)
Project ID: 1800
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1 Introduction and scope of the paper
2 Identification of relevant research hypotheses
2.1 Legal issues relating to the WTO
2.1.1 The WTO now interprets GATT rules so as to allow countries sufficient space to pursue many trade-related environmental policies
2.1.2 WTO law does not adequately address the role of other relevant rules of international law in adjudicating dispute on trade and environment
2.2 The institutional aspects of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism
2.2.1 The WTO dispute settlement mechanism is not structured appropriately to address environmental disputes
2.2.2 WTO dispute settlement body is not the appropriate forum to address environmental disputes
2.2.3 Many trade and environment disputes lend themselves to non-judicial alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
3 Survey of methodological approaches
4 Conclusions
5 Literature
6 WTO Member Submissions on the Dispute Settlement Review
Keywords: Finance

Trade

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