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coverage of installations on a downstream level. The paper uses data from EU ETS to empirically determine optimal coverage for …
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Many trade and environment issues will confront agriculture over the next several years. This report provides an economic framework to better understand these issues and discusses prior empirical inquiries and findings. Four primary issues are addressed: (1) how will environmental policies...
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This overview is divided into two main sections. The first sections reviews the literature on the impact of economic globalisation (involving of liberalisation of international trade and investment) on the state of the environment and sustainable development. While the WTO and Bretton Woods...
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The research goodbye to projects grew out of the increasing interest in sustainable livelihoods approaches (SLA) and growing disillusion with projects as mechanisms for addressing the development needs of the poor. Its aim was to investigate the implication of the adoption of SLA on the...
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, constituting an alternative to the conventional farming. The development of this sector in the EU countries, where more than 3 … support has been a very important factor in many EU countries. This support has been low in Spain, being the export market the …
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The European Union is attempting to have the protection of geographic indicators strengthened in the WTO. There may be sufficient rents and other benefits available to justify this strategy in the negotiations. To achieve its rent-seeking goals, however, the European Union needs allies at the...
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There is a widespread belief that the WTO has made virtually no concessions to environmentalists about their concerns arising from free trade and the process of globalisation. There are concerns that these processes may undermine prospects for sustainable development. Following the United...
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In recent years, we observe an increase in the importance of organic production in the world. Until recently, this trend was observed only in highly developed countries now many producers of organic food comes from Asia and Africa. These changes have their base mainly on the demand for organic...
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agricultural trade between China and the EU by using annual trade data from 1986 to 2005. Econometric models were constructed for … six agricultural products exported from the EU to China – frozen pigmeat, frozen fish, whey, barley, beer, and wine. The … suppliers. The estimations indicated that relative price changes affect significantly China’s import demand from the EU …
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Until there is a successful challenge at the WTO, the EU policy on LLP is likely to remain in place. Under this policy …, there is a zero tolerance level for GM material that has not received EU authorization. Zero tolerance, however, has to be … have resumed to the EU. The Protocol provides sufficient transparency for firms to be willing to engage in international …
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