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Environmental Law Web Sites
International & Foreign Law Department

Trade

Trade and Environment Database contains case studies in the area of trade and environment.

World Trade Organization

Trade Observatory "Global information center on trade and sustainable development"

United Nations Environment Programme - Economics and Trade Unit

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

First North American Symposium on Understanding the Linkages Between Trade and the Environment (CEC)

Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2001 World Bank report - available in full-text in PDF format. See Chapter 3 - "Standards, Developing Countries, and the Global Trading System."

Global Trade Negotiations Home Page - Environment offers an extensive collection of research and position papers from a variety of sources, including NGOs, think tanks, scholars, and government. Also a collection of related links.

Global Environment Trade Study (GETS) was established in 1994 by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. It "seeks to provide better analytical underpinnings for the 'trade and environment' debate." The site includes a database of documents in 27 topic areas related to trade and the environment.

Codex Alimentarius Commission

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Trade Division includes the Timber Committee, Agricultural Standards, Standardization Policies, Chemical Industry sectors.

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Trade Knowledge Network

Sierra Club - Responsible Trade

 

International Instruments

Environment: Relevant WTO Provisions: Texts

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Code of Ethics on the International Trade in Chemicals