Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Vol. 15 (3) , 113-130
- https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.15.3.113
Abstract
Perceived conflict between trade liberalization and environmental protection can be traced to a number of issues. Some tensions relate to the environmental Kuznets curve and whether economic growth yields environmental benefits. Other concerns arise from efforts to address transboundary externalities and disputes over the role of trade measures as an environmental enforcement tool. Another set of issues centers on the risk of a race-toward-the-bottom regulatory dynamic and the limits of legitimate comparative advantage. This paper argues that, in an ecologically and economically interdependent world, trade and environmental policies are inescapably linked as a matter of descriptive reality and normative necessity.Keywords
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