drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air … pollution, with important implications for international trade in such equipment. The different indicators of regulatory …-waste management or wastewater treatment. While increased trade in environmental products is not an end in itself, the environmental …

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

goods. It forms part of a series of OECD studies that analyse various issues related to Paragraph 31(iii) of the World Trade …This paper examines the synergistic relationships between trade in environmental services and trade in environmental … that the potential benefits to simultaneously liberalising trade in environmental services and in environmental goods are …

to draw attention to key trade, environment and development policy linkages. It also seeks to contribute to the exchange … of expertise and experience in the area of trade and environment so that liberalisation of trade in EG&S can benefit all …

for case studies owing to their potential trade, environmental and developmental benefits: sisal and other fibres of the …

Numerous studies and events over the past several years have stressed the importance of eliminating barriers to trade … dependence on more-polluting and less secure energy sources. This paper examines the implications of liberalising trade in … increased trade in renewable-energy technologies and components, but so would a growing number of companies based in developing …

This paper, the second in a series, examines the implications of liberalising trade in three forms of renewable energy … in OECD countries would benefit from increased trade in equipment, but so would a growing number of companies based in … countries. For the maximum benefits of trade liberalisation in biodiesel, and solar-thermal and geothermal technologies, to be …