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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:00 authored by Emily LydgateEmily Lydgate
Relevant WTO treaties state that trade liberalisation and environmental protection are ‘mutually supportive’. Yet negotiations reveal more contentious discourses: that environmental regulation comprises ‘green protectionism’, or that environmental protection is a ‘non-trade’ issue. Mutual supportiveness does not contradict, but rather encompasses, these divisions. It maintains positive ambiguity: an assertion that there is no conflict between economic development and environmental protection, and also an aspiration yet to be achieved. While it implies a duty to seek good faith solutions in event of conflicts of laws or norms, it does not prescribe any precise obligation. Thus, it circumscribes the WTO’s environmental ambitions.

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Routledge

Page range

152-175

Pages

218.0

Book title

The Language of World Trade Politics: Unpacking the Terms of Trade

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781138479838

Series

RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

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  • Law Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Sustainability Research Programme Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Clara Weinhardt, Klaus Dingwerth

Legacy Posted Date

2018-02-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-10-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-02-08

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