The first part of the paper briefly reviews the increasingly serious shortcomings of the WTO`s `Green room process`, and then proceeds to develop the case for creating a formal `WTO Consultative Board`. As with green room meetings, a WTO Consultative Board would not be empowered to take...

Arguments in support of the view that trade provisions are an essential part of certain multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) can be categorized as follows: (1) such provisions are necessary on grounds of economic efficiency (optimal intervention or lowest overall cost), or (2) they are...